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Battery life being or not being "great" isn't the glaring issue with Consumer Reports. It's the 500% or more swing in battery life! 

A consistent under say four hours would be a bad battery issue. But that wild swing? An issue somewhere but not hardware aka "the battery". 

sdw2001 said:

Consumer Reports sucks and ruined its reputation years ago.  They rate several superb products on tests that don't make sense.  It's like measuring how a fish climbs a tree with a lot of their stuff.  

Long ago Road & Track ran a cartoon showing cars going over a cliff into the ocean. The caption? "Oh, look. Consumer Reports is testing cars again"

rogifan_new said:

Well according to that Bloomberg article, Apple engineers were working on a new battery design for these machines but it wasn't ready in time for the holidays and marketing wanted something to go out so they had to revert to an older design with smaller battery.

Smaller won't explain those wild swings in hours. That's something in software. 

robin huber said:

9secondkox2 said:

And Steve Jobs attended Obamas meeting with all the tech companies. No explanation necessary. 

Before or after Obama took the oath of office?

He gave him an iPad after. 

I prefer to wait a day or two. Not for cleaner code but just so the servers aren't wobbling under the pressure of all the must have NOW types.