Apple Introduces All-New MacBook Pro with Retina Display
Apple today unveiled an all-new 15-inch MacBook Pro, featuring a stunning Retina display with over 5 million pixels, all-flash storage architecture, and quad-core processors in a radically thin and light design. Measuring a mere 0.71 inch high and weighing only 4.46 pounds, the completely redesigned MacBook Pro is the lightest MacBook Pro ever and nearly as thin as a MacBook Air. The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is...
Visualized: Samsung’s eerily familiar IFA Smart Lounge
By Brian Heater posted Aug 30th 2012 1:14PM So many tired and weary feet at this show, who wouldn’t want a nice lounge? Particularly a Smart one? And hey, Samsung’s tenty IFA lounge seemed oddly welcoming — at least to us Engadget folk. You’d think Samsung would be a little more cautious these days… Read more: Visualized: Samsung’s eerily familiar IFA Smart Loungefamily health...
Feds Probe Mobile App Privacy Safeguards
The meeting, which focused on procedure as much as policy, saw the airing of a laundry list of concerns that privacy advocates have raised with the way that companies use the information that they collect about consumers through mobile apps. But although this is the third stakeholder meeting the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has convened on the subject, many of the participants stressed the...
Fido switches on LTE, gives Canadians a taste of slightly more budget-minded 4G
By Jon Fingas posted Aug 30th 2012 1:31PM Canadians have had fairly limited options for LTE-based 4G if they didn’t want to turn to the three main carrier brands: they could go to a Bell-owned Virgin Mobile, and that’s it. While there isn’t a truly independent LTE carrier yet, Rogers’ lower-cost Fido label has just taken its promised LTE access live to at least offer some competition among the smaller names in...
MacBook Pro with Retina Display Named Editors’ Choice
By Joel Santo Domingo The Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Retina Display) is the laptop you want if you care about performance, thinness, and the screen. It’s not the vaunted “15-inch MacBook Air” that was rumored prior to 2012’s WWDC—it’s better, thanks to an up-to-date components, super-thin chassis, and impressive battery life. This “next-generation” MacBook Pro hasn’t just caught up to...
