

The 15’’ has a bigger battery but more on that later. This is a fully specced out 13’’, so the CPU and bigger RAM might contribute to a faster battery consumption. I find myself always worrying about the battery and making a real conscious effort to save it, which in turn (might) hurts my productivity.Ī side note, the current Android emulator version although better and faster compared to 2015, it’s also a lot harder on the battery, which ironically, I only use when I’m at home or outside of the office. The 2016’s version brings me back to the windows times, I’ve had my battery completely drained in a matter of 2 to 3 hours of normal app development. So personally this is my biggest disappointment. It’s slower than using a keyboard shortcut (and no, the touchbar alone is not enough to use Safari, or anything else really).Īlso I don’t use Siri, so I call it a gimmick: Not useful at all, even worse, it gets in the way of my productivity! Of course there is a non-touchbar version but the internal specs are subpar.įor a long time Macbook’s have been known for having really awesome batteries, way ahead of the competition, I remember when I first start using MBP back in early 2015 it was huge, life-changing almost, I never used to worry about battery! I rarely carried the charger around since it was always plugged-in at the office, the battery would last me a solid 10h worth of coding time, once again, this was huge for me especially when switching from a windows machine where the battery was around 30 minutes after an year. Recently Chrome has added some functionalities, if you can even call it that, but I must say I’ve never use it.
