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New MacBook Pro: now with 20% less battery power
New MacBook Pro: now with 20% less battery power
Apple touted some pretty decent battery life numbers at the new MacBook / MacBook Pro press event this week: up to five hours on the Pro with discrete graphics off, and four hours with it on (both surely assuming ideal low-power conditions). One of the things that didn’t come up at the ...
MacBook - Technical Specifications
apple.com — Display 13-inch MacBook showing display. Graphics and video support NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Video output options Input MacBook showing keyboard. 2.0GHz MacBook 2.4GHz MacBook (more) MacBook - Technical Specifications
MacBook Pro - Technical Specifications
apple.com — Display 15-inch MacBook showing display. Graphics and video support NVIDIA GeForce 9400M iSight Video output options Input MacBook Pro showing keyboard. (more) MacBook Pro - Technical Specifications
Due next from Apple: refreshed 20- and 24-inch iMacs
appleinsider.com — Assuming last minute snags are avoided, the coming weeks should bring new iMacs, rounding out Apple's 2008 hardware introductions as the company enters the holiday shopping season with one of its strongest product portfolios ever. (more) Due next from Apple: refreshed 20- and 24-inch iMacs
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New MacBook Pro Battery Has Less Battery Power Than Old One [MacBook Pro]
Gizmodo — ... This confirms what I suspected—the new MacBook Pro battery has a lower capacity than the old one. About 16 percent less to be specific. The old battery was rated at 5600mAh/60Wh, but the new ones are rated at 4700mAh/50Wh. This perfectly explains why you now need to use ...

New MacBooks have less battery power — but lower usage, too?
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... estimate that the integrated NVIDIA chipset and ever more behind-the-scenes power-saving techniques are why Apple is claiming such solid life despite killing a fifth of the machine’s energy supply — but a 20% reduction is still no small number My last-gen MacBook Pro actually reports 6040mAh on a full charge, perhaps because it's the 17" model. Oh, for the day where we stop having to worry about whether a laptop can even get as far as lunchtime. New MacBook Pro: now with 20% less battery power [Ryan Block]

Baterias dos novos MacBooks/MacBooks Pro são menos potentes do que gerações anteriores
MacMagazine — ... — até 5 horas com a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT desligada e 4 horas com ela em funcionamento —, o blogueiro Ryan Block descobriu que, tecnicamente, ela possui cerca de 20% menos energia do que a utilizada na geração anterior: ambas possuem 10,8v, mas as antigas eram de 5.600mAh/60Wh, enquanto as novas são de 4.700mAh/50Wh. ...

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