If you have a new MacBook Pro, you should update macOS right now

When Apple unveiled the new MacBook Pro in October 2016, its erratic battery life cost the product a coveted Consumer Reports recommendation. 

This led the company's senior vice president, Phil Schiller, to announce that Apple would work with Consumer Reports "to understand their battery test." It did, and now it's doing something about it.

Apple released an update to macOS (version 10.12.3) that includes a fix to the battery issues. It had previously teased the fix via a beta release, regaining CR's approval.

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This isn't the first macOS update Apple has released since the company unveiled the new laptop. An update in December saw the removal of the "time remaining" estimates for the battery. Their reasonings behind getting rid of this feature remains unclear, though some sources suspected that it was because their time predictions were inaccurate.  Read more...

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