Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Apple just arrived at Grand Central Terminal, we hop aboard (video)]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/09/apple-just-arrived-at-grand-central-station-we-hop-aboard-vide/http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/09/apple-just-arrived-at-grand-central-station-we-hop-aboard-vide/http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/09/apple-just-arrived-at-grand-central-station-we-hop-aboard-vide/#comments For many New Yorkers, Grand Central Station Terminal is where you go to escape the island -- not to leisurely browse aisles of iPhone accessories, or pop in for a Genius Bar appointment. But apparently Apple has a slightly different vision for the city's transportation hub, opening its fifth NYC store along the main hall's 23,000 square foot east balcony. We dropped by for the grand opening this morning, which came complete with the standard Apple Store t-shirt giveaway and what seemed like hundreds of red shirt-clad retail employees.

As NYC's gateway to Connecticut, Grand Central is typically incredibly crowded during rush hour, but the enormous sunlight-filled main hall was packed to the brim today with spectators -- eager customers queued up in a hallway out of view, beginning early this morning. The store itself is huge, occupying the entire east balcony and several side rooms, with a large genius bar, training area and accessory alcove at either side. Eager to pop in for a visit? Thumb through the gallery below to step inside, and jump past the break to experience the cacophonous chaos at Grand Central.

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Apple just arrived at Grand Central Terminal, we hop aboard (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's been a long time coming, but it looks like Apple's finally ready to take the wraps off its latest store. The company's latest New York City outpost is set to get its grand opening in landmark Grand Central Terminal on December 9th, leaving only a few weeks for some combative holiday shopping amidst tourists, fellow commuters and kids from the suburbs. According to an email sent to customers, the store will open its doors for the first time on Friday at 10AM, so you should probably start lining up in an hour or two -- after all, nothing beats claustrophobia, a little elbowing and that new Apple Store smell, right?

[Thanks, David]

Grand Central Apple Store opening December 9th, giving New Yorkers eight billionth way to buy an iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>appleapple storeAppleStoregrand centralgrand central terminalGrandCentralGrandCentralTerminalipadiphonenew yorknew york cityNewYorkNewYorkCitynycopenopeningMon, 05 Dec 2011 10:35:00 EST<![CDATA[Apple Store coming to Grand Central Terminal, travel disruptions guaranteed for next iPhone launch]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/23/apple-store-coming-to-grand-central-terminal-travel-disruptions/http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/23/apple-store-coming-to-grand-central-terminal-travel-disruptions/http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/23/apple-store-coming-to-grand-central-terminal-travel-disruptions/#commentsIt's one thing for Fifth Ave. to get clogged up each time a new iPhone or iPad gets released, but Grand Central Terminal? Avid NYC commuters best plan their vacation days accordingly, as one of the city's biggest transit hubs is about to get a heck of a lot more busy -- and not because White Plains is the new Southampton. The New York Post is reporting that Apple and the MTA have agreed on a decade-long deal that'll see a 23,000-square foot Apple Store take the place of Charlie Palmer's Metrazur restaurant, with Cupertino's rent to be set at $800,000 per year (rising to $1 million after ten years pass). For those curious, that's around $500,000 more than the eatery before it, and Apple's responsible for refurbishing the space. That cacophony of voices you hear? Touristy cheers drowning out local jeers.

Apple Store coming to Grand Central Terminal, travel disruptions guaranteed for next iPhone launch originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>appleapple storeAppleStorebusinessgrand centralgrand central stationGrandCentralGrandCentralStationindustrymass transitMassTransitmtanew yorknew york cityNewYorkNewYorkCitynycretailstoresubwaytransitususaSat, 23 Jul 2011 21:02:00 EST<![CDATA[Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL boost video encoding app by 50 percent]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/snow-leopards-grand-central-dispatch-and-opencl-boost-video-enc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/snow-leopards-grand-central-dispatch-and-opencl-boost-video-enc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/snow-leopards-grand-central-dispatch-and-opencl-boost-video-enc/#comments It'll take some time before we see the true impact of OpenCL and the newly-open-sourced Grand Central Dispatch on OS X, but we're definitely intrigued by this early report from Christophe Ducommun, developer of MovieGate, who says that shifting his app to use the new tech has increased performance by around 50 percent on the same hardware. Testing on a 2007 2.66GHz quad-core Mac Pro with a GeForce 8800GT, MovieGate MPEG-2 encode speeds went from 104fps under Leopard to 150fps under Snow Leopard, and decoding CPU usage dropped from 165 percent to 70 percent. Now, yes, that's just one app, and most users don't have four cores to play with, but it's still an eye-opening result, and we're definitely hoping it's the start of a trend.

[Via MacRumors]

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Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL boost video encoding app by 50 percent originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can you taste it? No, we suppose you probably can't. While Microsoft has been happy to share Windows 7 with just about anyone with a taste for danger, Apple has followed the traditional route of development with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, sharing it with developers alone. The good news is that things are starting to coalesce in the run-up to WWDC, with Apple just now informing developers that Snow Leopard's APIs are now frozen, with no more alterations planned before release. That means developers can work on their Snow Leopard-ready applications without much fear of Apple mucking things up with late game OS-level changes, and is a decent milestone towards what should presumably be a summer launch. The latest build also includes Chinese handwriting recognition for Macs with multitouch trackpads, similar to the functionality included in iPhone Software 2.0, and also finalizes the Grand Central architecture, which lets developers address multiple processing cores without all the know-how and complication usually required.

Update: MacRumors is also reporting that the new build includes Windows HFS+ drivers with Apple's Boot Camp utility, allowing Windows-on-Mac users to access their Mac OS X HFS+ partitions out of the box.

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