MacBook Pro battery: hidden Safari setting led to flawed results in Consumer Reports tests
Apple has come to the conclusion that ahidden settingin Safari caused theodd battery resultsin Consumer Reports’ MacBook Pro review that kept the publication from recommending the laptop. In a statement to AppleInsider, the companysaidit worked with CR’s team over the holidays and determined that its testing methods were flawed. “We learned that when testing battery life on Mac notebooks, Consumer Reports uses a hidden Safari setting for developing web sites which turns off the browser cache....