News for Thursday, 27 October 2005

Source : xlr8yourmac
As mentioned on Apple website, the recent nVidia graphic card GF 7800GT was described bit not available for ordering or as BTO option so far. Well, now this high-end GPU is available, but only for the US AppleStore. It features a double DVI output, one of them supporting the Apple cinema Display 30".
For the price, it will cost 350$, except if you buy a PMG5 dual core 2GHz (low-end model) then it will be more expensive, 400$. BUT it remains a real good deal for once, since the price of the card as a retail product in PC shops will cost between 350 and 450$!!
So this card is welcome to replace the rather "slow" GF 6600, and as a good alternative for mid-range offer; the FX4500 remaining purely dedicated to professional applications and/or working stations.
This card should appear as a BTO options to all other Apple Stores in a near future.
[update]
Doug has sent us a mail indicating availability in Canada for this card :

The 7800 GT is available at the Apple Store in Canada, too. It adds CAD$420 to the cost of a Quad 2.5GHz.

and zzmad told us that the card is also available on the Australian AppleStore from today

A new report from Fabien:

A small message to confirm that movies encoded in 640 x 352 format give a rather correct result on TV. We have also tested the new iPod with a direct connection to a video projector at the FNAC (Les Ternes, Paris) and the result was also quite positive.
To conclude, the iPod video works perfectly when linked to the RCA plug of a Citroen C8, allowing a video relay to the main display (see photo below)


This is definitively a promising product.

Are all capabilities of the new iPod really unlocked or currently available for the users?