EVGA has introduced its version of the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS video card and it is good. It is really good. Of course a card that costs more than some gaming systems should be good. The 8800 line of the GeForce family is notable for its support of DirectX 10, the new gaming framework exclusive to Windows Vista. DirectX 10 promises great graphics once the games that can take advantage of the new framework start to trickle in from the various game studios.

The Nvidia’s 8800 line …

Sandisk recently announced that they along with Toshiba are planning on shipping their next generation of NAND flash memory in the first quarter of 2007 as they begin a transition in production at one of their joint wafer fabrication plants. The transition will mark the beginning of producing 56 nanometer multi-level cell flash memory chips from the previous 70 nanometer production. This will create the industry’s highest available density in a single chip MLC NAND flash memory.

This release comes after a number of recent announcements from …

SanDisk recently introduced the slim Sansa View portable video player which allows playing movies, music and viewing photos on a 4″ widescreen color display.

The video player has only 8GB of internal memory, which is quite a bit for playing audio files, but doesn’t go quite as far when viewing video. SanDisk estimates 33 hours of MPEG-4 video playback at 512kbps with the internal 8GB. The video player does have an SD card slot, so the memory can be expanded and video stored externally if needed, and a video out AV jack …

So you want a DirectX 10 Video card but you don’t want to sell a kidney? The BFG GeForce 8800 GTS might be for you. Not that this video card is cheap. The retail price is around $500 dollars. Its only cheap when you compare it to a card like the ASUS EN8800 GTX.

So what does five hundred bucks get you? A pretty good video card, that’s what.

While the GTX model mentioned above has 768 MB of memory (wow) this card …

The i-Station Mini DX is a cool little gadget that plays digital audio and video, as well as supports viewing still pictures. It can also pick up FM radio and DMB television in Korea, which is probably part of the reason why this gadget isn’t available in the US.

THe Mini DX weighs only 80 grams and measures about 86x54x16mm. It has a 2.4 inch TFT LCD display and comes with internal memory of 1GB, 2GB and a 4GB version in the works with an SD slot to add some more.

The player also supports MP3 …

Shuttle has long been the leader in small form factor (SFF) PCs. Shuttle is typically the option people turn to when they have minimal space and need a case that is adaptable to any environment such as a dorm room, home office, or cubicle. The X100 is sure to continue on with that heritage for those people looking for a tiny case with big case features.

The X100 case measures 2.1″ x 8.27″ x 11.76″ and weighs 6.6 pounds, ensuring that you will have room remaining on your desktop. The case can set like a …

After some time of speculation, Apple announced today that its entire line of MacBook Pro laptops would now include faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 4MB of shared L2 cache, as well as double the memory and larger hard drives. Apple states that this increase in processing power will make the Macbook up to 39 percent faster than it’s previous generation 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro and more than 7 times faster than the 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4.

Apple’s Senior Vice President of Marketing was quoted saying “We are thrilled that …

SanDisk Corporation recently announced the 12 and 16GB SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards. This announcement makes these new cards the highest capacity cards in the world. The new large-capacity cards are targeted towards professional photographers who shoot RAW or high-resolution JPG files and need the performance and capacity to capture these massive files.

The new cards will have minimum write and read speeds of 20 megabytes per second (MB/sec.). The cards are expected to ship to photo retailers by the end of the year. The announcement was made at the Photokina …

I think JVC has reached a mile marker here with the media for digital video recording. I remember my dad with a camcorder that took the full size VHS tapes (he still uses it), and then they went to the smaller tapes so the camera could have a smaller profile and you could still get a decent amount of recording time.

After tapes there was some time there were it could have went anywhere. The most popular seemed to be using flash memory or lately using small DVD’s that were burned inside the …

The sleek Acer Ferrari line of products is about to welcome a newer, faster member to the team. The new Ferrari 1005WTMi is an ultra-compact notebook that features sleek ergonomics, exquisite detailing, and sports the trademark Ferrari colors.

The Ferrari 1005WTMi notebook draws its horsepower from an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 processor with the ATI XPRESS 1150 Chipset. Some of the other key features include:

12.1″ WXGA high-brightness Acer CrystalBriteâ„¢ TFT LCD
2048MB DDR2 667 MHz RAM Memory
160GB SATA Hard Disc Drive
ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 integrated 3D graphics, with up to …