Just got word from Crow that he's put together an article which takes a look at the latest products to hit Japan from Nvidia's range of graphics cards NV28 & NV18, like this card from Gainward TI42008XVIVO-A128D NV28:

Although everyone expects the NV30 to be introduced at the first day of Comdex TheInquirer can confirm that Nvidia will introduce one more interesting gadget. They can not say whether NV30 will be presented at the same time, but the NV28M, its new mobile chip, will be introduced on Monday 18th November at Comdex Fall 2002. Read More...

Xbitlabs.com reports that AMD Athlon XP processors with 2600+ and 2700+ model numbers have started to appear in Japanese retail stores.

HP today is changing the landscape of mobile computing with the introduction of the Compaq Tablet PC TC1000, a versatile, full-function mobile PC that adapts to the way users work. Wireless-enabled and highly portable, the tablet PC combines the power of digital ink with a full-function PC.

Just spotted this @ Theinquirer.net:



Meanwhile our eagle-eyed French friends spotted an adapter card that lets you connect up an AGP card AND a PCI card into a single PCI slot. It's on the Japanese site watch.impress, of course: over here .

Just got word that Rivastation.com have posted details and pic's of Sapphire Tech's Ultimate Edition 9700 Pro which uses a derivate of the Zalman ZM-80HP passive heatpipe cooler. So this card is nothing more than a 'modded' card, You'll probably go cheaper just exchanging the cooler unit ;-).

Sapphire announced the new Ultimate Edition version of their Radeon 9700 PRO card Atlantis Pro. It comes with a special passive cooling that is combined with a heat-pump. The biggest advantage of that solution: No noise at all. The card will be available at end November. The price is still unknown yet. Rancho*: Heat-pump? What's that?

AMD has released a new CPU roadmap which shows AMD's 64bit CPU's scheduled for the first half of 2003. As expected the AMD Opteron based on the SledgeHammer core will go for the server market and the AMD Athlon based on the ClawHammer core is going to be targeted at the desktop market. Click read more to view.

As we reported earlier Elsa returns as Neue Elsa GmbH. Their new consumer lineup has not been announced yet but a german online retailer is already listing some of their new products. And guess what: the former Nvidia close partner uses ATI based cards for the companies relaunch: ELSA Gladiac 9500 Pro ELSA Gladiac 9700 Pro The Elsa Gladiac 9700 Pro specs are exactly running at ATI borders. Hit read more for a first photograph of box and card.

Thats right. TomsHardwareGuide has another mammoth hardware review of no less than six Radeon 9700 Pro graphic cards. Cards tested in the review are ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, Crucial Radeon 9700 Pro, Gigabyte MAYA II GV-R 9700 Pro, Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro, HIS ExCaliber 9700 Pro,Sapphire Radeon 9700 Atlantis Pro. (puff...) Click Tomshardware.com for the full review. THG: "Much to NVIDIA's annoyance, graphics cards with ATI's Radeon 9700 PRO chip have the upper hand right now. We took a closer look at six cards from various manufacturers."

Just saw this over at Osbetas.com. Seems someone made a video of Windows XP Tablet PC in use.

You can download it off their forums here if you are interested.

I was just over @ Anandtech.com and I see they have an Article up called Anand goes West - November 2002 Industry Update!Tthe most interesting bit is the piece about Nvidia's GeForce 4 Ti 4800? They also cover Nvidia's nForce2 and compare it against VIA's KT400! It's well worth a read... For starters we have the GeForce 4 Ti 4800, but don't let the name excite you - the card is nothing more than a GeForce4 Ti 4600 with AGP 8X support. Even more disappointing is that there's talk of a GeForce4 Ti 4800-SE that runs at the same clock speed as the current-gen Ti 4400 but with AGP 8X support. We can't only fault NVIDIA for misleading nomenclature though, the difference between ATI's Radeon 9500 and Radeon 9500 Pro is huge yet the difference in name implies nothing more than clock speed changes.

Today Xbitlabs.com are going to compare the performance in 3DS Max 5 package of the two newest processors representing the top products in two constantly competing families. Both have new weapons ready: Athlon XP 2800+ is the first CPU with 166MHz bus, while Intel Pentium 4 features a twice as large cache and works at about 25% higher core clock frequency. Ready for a race?

Just got word from AC @ Nvmax.com that he's posted his VisionTek Ti article which takes a look @ the whole range of VisionTek GeForce4 Ti cards.Here's a snip. With VisionTek hitting the bargain buckets as resellers attempt to clear out the troubled companies stock we ask are the VisionTek cards based on NVIDIA Ti chipsets worthy of a buy? Do we need the warranty or should we take a risk?, and if so then will the VisionTek models still power our games adequately?

The AIW 9700 Pro is the ultimate visual and home entertainment experience for your PC. It combines the fastest 3D gaming performance, superior television and entertainment features, along with easy-to-use video editing and capture found in a graphics card. With 128MB DDR memory, the card is the first to support DirectX 9.0, AGP 8X, utilize THEATER 200 for stereo and video decoding and processing, and has dual stereo TV-tuner capabilities with 125 channels in its class. There are already 3 previews up and running that we have listed for the ever hardware hungry.

Just got word from Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr that he's posted up his preview of Prolink's PixelView GeForce 4 Ti 4200 8X AGP card and some UT2003 benckmarks.

Beyond3D has an Intel D845GEBV2 Desktop Motherboard review up. The D845GEBV2 is based on Intel?s refresh to the 845 line-up with support for PC2700 DDR333 RAM, Hyper-Threaded enabled CPU?s and with Intel?s "Extreme Graphics". "Even before finishing one Beyond3D Intel motherboard review Intel announce a whole host of updates to their chipset line-up and no sooner than the previous review was finished did one of Intel's new desktop boards, based on one of these new chipsets, turn up on the doorstep."

According to Anton of Xbitlabs.com, Nvidia is stopping production of their top-of-the-line Geforce4 Ti 4600 card as it is trying to push its AGP8X cards in market. This report comes in the anticipation of Nvidia announcing NV30 in two to three weeks. So far Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (8x) are the only ones to be available in stores (if this report is true). This report doesn't sound rumour as GeForce4 Ti 4600 doesn't perform well (even though Nvidia has been bombarding (read "leaking") Detonators to push its card close to ATI's 9700. If you go by the review ratio then nothing can beat the popularity of Geforce 4 Ti 4200 as it seems to have hit the sweet spot of price vis-a-vis performance ratio. Personally I think it's priced too heavy for me, and I will always be thinking like that.

Some dutch guy (.. actually its EJ Boeve ) has a full review of the Sony DRU-500A DVD writer. This writer is capable of burning DVD-R/-RW, DVD+RW/+R, and even CD-R/CD-RW. Sony has launched this writer against competition of Pioneer A04. Can Sony beat Pioneer; read it in the review at ... www.djsmiley.com. For full specification of this drive warp 2 ... SonyStyleUSA.com.

"The OptiPlex SX260 is a result of direct customer feedback," said Michael Dell, CEO and chairman, at a press conference. "We talk daily to tens of thousands of customers around the world and continually incorporate their feedback into the design of innovative, relevant products. The SX260 is ideally suited for space-conscious customers, including many in the Japanese market, but doesn't sacrifice power as a result of its small size."

Chaintech has launched their new ZENITH series with more new features and cool stuffs over the current APOGEE series. Chaintech 7NJS is the first board based on the ZENITH series featuring Nvidia nForce2 SPP + MCP-T chipsets, 333Mhz FSB support, Dual Channel DDR 400/333/266 SDRAM up to 3GB, AGP 8X, CMedia 8738 6 Channel Audio, Promise PDC20376 Serial ATA RAID controller, 6 x USB 2.0 Ports, Onboard LAN, SPDIF, IEEE1394, CBox2 (DigiDoc, IEEE1394, USB2.0, Audio in/out) and many others. With so many features packed into this board, 7NJS does come with a price and the suggested retail price is $188.