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Consumer Reports Clarifies Poor MacBook Pro Rating

At least in part, Apple has figured out why Consumer Reports gave its new MacBook Pro models such a poor battery-life score. “It turns out that Consumer Reports turns off Safari’s local cache for their browsing test,” TechCrunch reports. “It means that the browser will fetch a website’s data from the internet every time.” Normally, “When the cache is on, Safari stores images on your hard drive so that you don’t have to load them up every time.”

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