<story><title>New MacBook Pro series</title><url>http://apple.com/macbookpro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siglesias</author><text>&amp;#62;&amp;#62;• 3 hours less battery life&lt;p&gt;The old battery tests were unrealistic. They advertised 8 hours on the 17&apos;&apos;, but who really got even close to that under normal use?&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m thankful they&apos;re taking the hit on pure battery life numbers to report an honest, realistic test.</text></item><item><author>wheels</author><text>Color me disappointed.  I was hoping for:&lt;p&gt;• Ditching the optical media for longer battery life&lt;p&gt;• 4 cores in the 13&quot;&lt;p&gt;• Max RAM of 12 GB (this one isn&apos;t listed ... maybe?)&lt;p&gt;• The higher resolution 1440x900 resolution in the 13&quot; that the Macbook Air has&lt;p&gt;Altogether it&apos;s a pretty wussy update.  Basically it looks like the diff (on the 13&quot; model, which is what I care about) is:&lt;p&gt;• Faster CPU (finally!)&lt;p&gt;• Thunderbolt port (count on buying another $30 display adapter like every generation)&lt;p&gt;• 3 hours less battery life</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>younata</author><text>They advertised 10 hours for my (now) last-gen MacBook pro. I can easily do 12 hours. And have. Screen brightness at minimum, using terminal.app. I prefer vim to any graphical editor (haven&apos;t tried emacs), and nethack is one of my favorite games ever.
That&apos;s what I spend my long plane rides doing.</text></comment>
<story><title>New MacBook Pro series</title><url>http://apple.com/macbookpro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siglesias</author><text>&amp;#62;&amp;#62;• 3 hours less battery life&lt;p&gt;The old battery tests were unrealistic. They advertised 8 hours on the 17&apos;&apos;, but who really got even close to that under normal use?&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m thankful they&apos;re taking the hit on pure battery life numbers to report an honest, realistic test.</text></item><item><author>wheels</author><text>Color me disappointed.  I was hoping for:&lt;p&gt;• Ditching the optical media for longer battery life&lt;p&gt;• 4 cores in the 13&quot;&lt;p&gt;• Max RAM of 12 GB (this one isn&apos;t listed ... maybe?)&lt;p&gt;• The higher resolution 1440x900 resolution in the 13&quot; that the Macbook Air has&lt;p&gt;Altogether it&apos;s a pretty wussy update.  Basically it looks like the diff (on the 13&quot; model, which is what I care about) is:&lt;p&gt;• Faster CPU (finally!)&lt;p&gt;• Thunderbolt port (count on buying another $30 display adapter like every generation)&lt;p&gt;• 3 hours less battery life</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>I&apos;d be surprised if that&apos;s what happened.  I suspect this is just another unrealistic number that&apos;s the same proportion of reality as the previous numbers.&lt;p&gt;That said, when I&apos;m traveling and going for extended battery life (read: trans-atlantic flights) I get pretty close to the rated number by dimming my backlight and shutting off wifi and bluetooth.</text></comment>