New MacBook Pro: now with 20% less battery power

Apple touted some pretty decent battery life numbers at the new MacBook / MacBook Pro press event this week: up to five hours on the Pro with discrete graphics off, and four hours with it on (both surely assuming ideal low-power conditions). One of the things that didn’t come up at the presser, however, was [...]

Is right now really the moment for Apple to launch new laptops?

Next week I’ll be with Josh at Apple’s new laptop event in Cupertino, and I’ll be up front about it: I’m pretty stoked. I’ve been holding off on buying until the next major MacBook or Pro revision — which I thought would come in January at Macworld — but this is clearly it. (Granted, there’s [...]

A day with the T-Mobile G1

Okay, I’m way late in getting my hands on a T-Mobile G1 (the crew in NY got to check it out eons ago), but I did get to spend a day with one all to myself, and by popular Twitter demand, here are some (very) brief impressions.
Hardware

A lot smaller than I thought it’d be. [...]

Apple protesters don disgruntled iPhone costume

Over the past few months there have been a number of protesters spotted at various local Apple store locations, but I have to give it up to these guys (MTD Drywall, from Gilroy, I believe). Not only did they go to the effort of building out a full-on disgruntled union-protest iPhone costume (with near-accurately placed [...]

T-Mobile G1 / Android bits you may not have caught

Just a few bits on today’s monumental T-Mobile G1 / Android / HTC Googlephone / funnererest handset evar announcement that may have gone under the radar.

T-Mobile claims G1s will be SIM-locked (no surprise). But hey, the software platform is completely open source; I can’t wait to see how they think they’ll protect against that.
T-Mobile claims [...]

CBSi / CNET cuts CTO, SVP, and more than a dozen other jobs

Looks like CNET / CBSi is making some more cutbacks after all; granted, with an acquisition as large as theirs ($1.2b, hundreds of employees), there were bound to be some redundancies, despite the company’s claims there would be “very few.” After CNET laid off 120+ employees earlier this year in preparation for its eventual sale [...]

Podcaster: what you’re missing in the app Apple rejected

In light of last week’s controversy over Podcaster, pal Niall took a deeper look inside the App Store process for developers, and what may lead to some apps being rejected. I got a chance to check out Podcaster and kick its wheels a bit — it’s definitely early software, but I can certainly say it’s [...]

Google Chrome already represents more than 10% of gdgt’s traffic!

Damn, if our numbers are anything to go by (and I’m not saying they are), the adoption rate of Google’s Chrome among the geek-set has been absolutely astonishing. Tomorrow will mark gdgt’s first week (in super soft launch mode, anyway), and about a week and a half for Chrome — and Google already represents more [...]

Calculator watch

Ever wonder what they get you when you “retire” at Engadget? Last month at a team dinner (my last as editor-in-chief of the site!), my main man and freshman editor Josh Topolsky presented me with this, um, “gold” vintage Casio calculator watch. The nerd humor truly knows no bounds.