I have three Apple laptops designed to have at least ten hours of battery life. Two of those are G3 "Pismos" which achieved the feat by being able to run for five hours on a battery & having a multi-device bay that could accept a second battery.
The other is this 2017 MacBook Pro. See pic.

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The base model 2011 13-in MBP benchmarks slightly higher then the top-of-the-range 2010 17-in MBP. That was the introduction of the Sandy Bridge processor and faster RAM.

Correct. Originally available in 2.0; 2.2 & 2.3 GHz, although only the 2.3 GHz shipped with 8 GB of RAM, the others had 4 GB.

I've been hearing rumours of a new iPad with USB-C instead of Lightning. One wonders what it'll be called: iPad X; iPad SE or maybe iPad SE-X?

If Geekbench benchmarks mean anything, then this 2017 2.3 GHz i5 13-in MBP scores virtually the same as the 2011 2.3 GHz i7 15-in MBP on the multi-core setting. Both computers have 8 GB of the RAM relevant to their times.

Will attempt salvage of MacBook Water (ex-Air) on Friday. It seems the electronics hobbyist shop sells a phone repair kit that includes the desired Pentalobe P5 screwdriver.

Unexpectedly almost pain-free today. Last night I used a gel icepack & half the recommended daily maximum dosage of paracetamol - I'd had none prior to that dosage so was in no danger of poisoning from the stuff.

Reminds me of a project the Men's Shed group instigated a few years ago: fitting tamper-proof one-way screws to vehicle registration plates. All approved by the registration authority. We had to get four different length/gauge of screw in stock.

If yesterday means the previous day, then, logically, yesteryear means the previous years. Therefore, my bits of tech from yesteryear are an iPad, iMac & now a MacBook Pro.

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Fucken Sophos is being an arsehole with the new MacBook Pro. Insists it's vulnerable even though the settings are identical with the MacBook Water's settings.