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  • Apple working with Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro battery findings, says Phil Schiller

    brainsbrains
    Thursday I get to work, flip open my new 15" MBP+TB, and notice two things:
    1. I'm at 66% battery after working a few hours the previous evening
    and
    2. I forgot my charger at home.

    So, I tell my staff I will probably leave work early when my battery dies, and finish up the day from home.  What ended up happening?  I went home at 5:00 with 10% remaining.  I had two mail clients, Safari, Terminal and Xcode open pretty much all day.

    There is so far only one thing I've found which will burn through battery like a fat kid through cake:  Windows 10 running in VMWare Fusion.  I avoided that one on Thursday.
    pscooter63watto_cobra

  • Apple working with Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro battery findings, says Phil Schiller

    brainsbrains
    macplusplus said:
    9secondkox2 said:
    hledgard said:
    The ARS Technica article is great.  Very Professional.
    They are people so bias shows up sometimes. 

    However they hey are some of the most professional and objective folks out there. 

    Ou wont find much in the way of clickbait, bashing, sensationalism, etc. 

    They belong on any tech pro or fans frequent reference list. 
    One thing they omitted in that article is that Apple's battery estimates are based on 8 GB RAM. 16 GB RAM would consume more battery, obviously, because the RAM continuously draws power, there is no way to turn it on and off and it has no idle time.
    Not sure that'd be too significant, at least from my perspective.  Mine is a maxed out 15" model (well, almost - 1TB SDD instead of 2TB) and I've been getting great battery life.
    pulseimages

  • Apple's latest iOS 9.3 update 'bricks' some older iPads, making them unusable

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    I updated two devices without issue (iPad Pro, iPhone 6).  Two iPad 2's failed to activate, either on device or via iTunes.  Talked to Apple Support for a while, tried everything we could think of, ended up doing a a full restore on each.  Both activated fine after that.  Perhaps something was forgotten in the updater, perhaps in the bootloader?  Who knows.  But a 'hold the home button and plug in the cable' restore worked like a champ.
    SpamSandwich