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    Battery run-time question.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by SP Forsythe, Feb 27, 2011.

  1. SP Forsythe

    SP Forsythe Notebook Evangelist

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    So, we are to understand that Apple didn't falsely over-rate the battery run-time of the previous edition MacBook Pros. That they instead used testing data/methodology which was unreliable (and they didn't know it - ;) YRS).

    Never mind that they should have been as adept at estimating battery run-time as the myriad of customers who disagreed with them from day one...

    But, I have to ask.... Is the current published run-time information on the MacBook Air using the old test formula, the new test formula, or its own arbitrary one? (please excuse the sarcasm)
     
    SP Forsythe, Feb 27, 2011
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  2. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    Apple, like all computer makers, were severely over-estimating realistic battery life. Many computer makers still do this... its not an Apple only thing.

    Apple now has all their machines listed with the newer testing. Even the old White plastic Macbook used to be 10 hours listed and now is listed as 7, and it is the same exact machine.... so yes, the Macbook Air's current estimates are using the newer testing, along with everything else.
     
    doh123, Feb 27, 2011
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