Apple is certainly not happy for the outcome of Consumer Reports testing of its MacBook Pro.
The nonprofit organization is standing by its initial verdict in which it did not give the MacBook Pro (2016) its “recommended” rating. The organization has now said it doesn’t think re-running the tests will change anything.
“In this case, we don’t believe re-running the tests are warranted for several reasons. First, as we point out in our original article, experiencing very high battery life on MacBooks is not unusual for us – in fact we had a model in our comparative tests that got 19 hours,”
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Apple has challenged the findings but Consumer Reports does not plan to change the outcome – MacBook Pro is not Recommended.