Eric_WVGG

Not a single one of the people here who describes the test as fraudulent knows a goddamned thing about networking.

larrya said:

Remember, guys, their testing consists of visiting a series of web sites over and over until the battery dies.  If that were my approach, I would definitely disable the cache. 

Exactly. Any kind of battery benchmark will be inaccurate by design — people do not load one web page every 30 seconds and then go on to another one, for example. A benchmark that loaded pages by random intervals would need to be run hundreds of times in order to get a meaningful distribution of data, we'd still be waiting for CR to publish a damn review.

Benchmarking with caches enabled would have unpredictable results based on when the websites in question updated (say the NYTimes front page is in the roster, and a new issue with cache-busting changes pops up in the middle of one benchmark but not another) and also how caching is configured for the various assets… also shared assets like the cached jQuery in GoogleAPIs. The best way to get "clean" data is to just disable caching and accept that as a factor of your test. The test will probably show slightly worse battery life than real world use, but the results of the test will be consistent and only need to be run dozens of times instead of hundreds.

Apple and Consumer Reports both did their jobs correctly

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Personally, I have found the battery life of this 15" Touchbar MBP to be just slightly better than the 13" Retina MBP it's replacing, but one thing the reviews left out is that the charging is unbelievably fast. If I leave this plugged in for 20-30 minutes for lunch or to take a walk, I can easily get through an entire work day. My jury is still out on the Touchbar but I sure like the rest of this thing.

I can't think of many Mac apps that I’m still using over ten years later. Workflows change, better tools come along, other stuff gets abandoned. Carbon Copy Cloner is constantly great and the developer deserves some sort of OS X Lifetime Achievement Award.

Felix: to me SuperDuper feels sort of like a "CCC Lite". It does the job but lacks features and advanced logs. As something in the toolkit SD is fine, but for regular use and daily snapshot backups I think CCC is worth the premium.