“The 11-inch Air was praised for its ergonomics and display quality, as well as weight and battery life,” Electronista reports. “The 13-inch MacBook Air also won its size category… beating Apple’s other 13-inch MacBook and MacBook Pro configurations.”
Electronista reports, “In the 15- and 16-inch category, the MacBook Pro configurations took the top two places… [and] the MacBook Pro 17″ took the prize for best laptop in the 17-18 inch category.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Until the geniuses at Consumer Reports correct their iPhone 4 fiasco and “recommend” the smartphone that just so happens to sit atop their ratings, their opinions aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit (even when they get it right, as they have here).
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Sweeping the category can’t be a bad thing
Me thinks they are trying to make up to us.
Even my parents stopped reading that rag.
MDN: You might want to edit the header: is should be in
Customer Report reviews x.
That x is on top of every parameter given by Customer Report.
Customer Report denies the outcome.
(dont they trust their own parameters of evaluation?)
Customer Report reviews y.
That y is on top of every parameter given by Customer Report.
Customer Report takes the outcome.
Now, can you take that? can you believe the whole things that they dont even believe in them self?
CR is good for hand tools, power tools, paint, stain, tires, household appliances, etc. that can be tested and rated in a highly objective and relevant manner. Complex electronic devices are not as conducive to comparative ratings. As a result, CR often falls short in this area. In addition, the weighting of the rating criteria may not match your priorities with respect to cost, reliability, functionality, etc.
As with any information resource, the value of the data varies with your application and personal preferences.
Piss on those asswipes CR!
Fsck Consumer Reports!
I’m still mad that during the 90s they rated the Mac so poorly simply because the PC had way more apps.
They forgot about reliability, total cost of ownership, user experience, and instead concentrated on the millions of shitty apps on the PC as an overwhelming “feature”.
I seem to remember the iP4 tempest was started by the CU Blog. The actual magazine had placed the iP4 at the top of their ratings, hadn’t they?
I’m surprised CU didn’t rate them as “not recommended” because Apple does not include a carrying case with the purchase.
MDN: You can’t get here from your RSS feed – right headline points to wrong article.
Consumer Reports in a bare knuckled backhanded way has just slapped S. Ballmer, M. Dell, Sony, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, HP and others absolutely silly into stunned silence. They don’t deliver the beef.
After watching Apple’s quality and laptop structures consistently rise over the last 6-7 years, I am personally surprised that even the high end Dell M6500 “Mobile Precision Workstation” laptops (which I used to buy) look and feel so clunky. Price an M6500 versus the MBP 17″ and you will be surprised who charges more.
Where are the dedicated design teams who have been given the orders to “meet or beat” Apple? Obviously, they will have to compete in the $1000 & up market, but that is where serious students and workers live in today’s world, unless they must have a desktop’s power and expansion.
I have to agree with MDN on this one. Can we trust their reviews? I believe they have to many political motivations these days, stuff happening behind the curtains, that are affecting their judgment.
While it is nice to see Mac on top I don’t understand their stance on the iPhone, it doesn’t need to be at the top of their category (it is on my list though) how they can still claim it is a phone they can’t recommend ( which is double speak for don’t buy this thing)
I forget they exist until they do something sensational, like tell use Kin is a great phone (they didn’t I’m making a point) or Macs are the best of the best, all they are doing is trying to show they are still relevant in this Internet age, I just don’t think they succeed in showing me they know what they are talking about
I stopped paying attention to CR back in about 1965 when they declared the Ford Fairlane 500 the best car in the world.
Even warm spit can be right twice a day, er, or something like that.
Yeah, that’s nice. . . but where are the new Macbook Pros? They’re past due now.
I think CU could not resist the temtation to link bait on the iPhone review. I suspect they got more hits on their site… and sold more magazines… than they have in a long time because of that review. I lost a lot of respect for them….
Today’s Mac users seem to hate on everything and everyone not Apple. The whining and bitching on these forums is incredible. It seems everything is crap and everyone is crap and I won’t buy this, I won’t read this. Even if CR says Macs are the best in the world, that is not good enough. They are crap. You are crap. All is crap. What a grumpy bunch.
@HughB
Nice meeting you. I suppose you also attend synagogue because you are Presbyterian.
LOL Consumer Reports.
Almost no one had heard about them before the iPhone 4.