Consumer Reports now Recommends new MacBook Pro


Consumer Reports has now finished retesting the battery life on Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops, and our results show that a software update released by Apple on January 9 fixed problems we'd encountered in earlier testing.

With the updated software, the three MacBook Pros in our labs all performed well, with one model running 18.75 hours on a charge. We tested each model multiple times using the new software, following the same protocol we apply to hundreds of laptops every year.

Consumer Reports has recommended all recent Apple laptops, so it was a big deal when it didn't recommend the newest over battery concerns. In their previous tests, the batter lasted as short as 3.75 hours.