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Consumer Reports retests 2016 MacBook Pro, now recommends the notebooks

Following a retest, Consumer Reports has given the 2016 MacBook Pro its recommendation. The change comes after retests wherein the publication and Apple worked together. fter becoming aware of a Safari bug that may have impacted results, Consumer Reports recently started retesting on a newer build of macOS Sierra in which the bug was supposedly […]

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Consumer Reports cites varying battery performance on 2016 MacBook Pros, holds back recommendation on new notebooks

Consumer Reports feels there’s an issue with the 2016 MacBook Pro battery. The publication, which has reviewed the notebook, Consumer Reports explained that while the new models held up well in terms of display quality and performance, the battery life issues were too big of an issue to overlook. The organization tested three MacBook Pro […]

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“Flickering” issue on 2016 MacBook Pro notebooks seems to be likely caused by third-party software

Following up on the flickering issue we reported about, an undetermined number of 2016 MacBook Pro models are suffering from disturbing graphical rendering issues, with owners reporting full screen artifacts, screen tearing, flashing, random “glitches” and even system crashes. The issue, however, is related to overzealous third-party software and is not indicative of a critical […]

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Some newer MacBook Pro units arriving with System Integrity Protection feature disabled

This is kind of strange. Since the days of OS X El Capitan, Apple has activated a protection feature called System Integrity Protection, which is designed to keep your Mac safe from malware by restricting the permissions of the root user account and preventing unauthorized access to protected files and folders. The program runs behind […]

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iFixit completes first Touch Bar-equipped 13-inch MacBook Pro teardown, finds interesting new changes in hardware

The cool cats at iFixit have finished their teardown of the new 13-inch Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro and discovered some neat differences when compared with the MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar. First, both 13-inch models have the exact same dimensions, but the Touch Bar machine weighs 20 grams less, which iFixit puts down to […]