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This Week in Reviews [October 22-26]


Oct 27, 2012 10:00 AM EDT by David Eitelbach  

This week, we got our hands on a ton of hot tech, including the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, the Droid RAZR Maxx HD from Motorola, and a host of Windows 8 tablets and notebooks from Toshiba, HP and ASUS. Oh, and did we mention Microsoft’s very first computer – the Surface? Read what we thought of each below!

13-inch Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display

Once you see it, it's hard to go back to any other screen. That's the way the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display makes you feel. Everything else is second best -- with the exception of Apple's higher-res 15-inch version. For $1,699, or $500 less than the flagship MacBook Pro, you get double the pixels of an HDTV inside a machine that's just as thin but faster than Ultrabooks. Still, this premium cousin to the regular 13-inch MacBook Pro (the No. 1 seller in the U.S.) costs more than the Ultrabook competition and $500 more than the 13-inch Air. Let's find out if Apple has done enough to tear you away from your run-of-the-mill screen for good.

Read Our 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display Review

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