here is Ben at his best:

and also checkout his wii Laptop!

The 9800M GTX and 9800M GTS both have 112 processing units, which is equivalent to the Nvidia 9800 GT GPU designed for desktop PCs. They feature have a 500MHz core frequency and operate at 1250MHz.

In addition, the two higher end cards will make use of Hybrid SLI technology, so they are able to run cooler and save battery power. There also will be PureVideo and Blu-ray support, along with MXM3.0, designed so the GPU can be upgraded later.

Toshiba is the first company to announce notebooks featuring the new NVidia GPUs, with the Toshiba Qosmio X305 powered by the 9M series.

Nvidia closed the deal with Ageia in February, and promised to include PhysX technology into GeForce GPU products as soon as it could. Analysts expected products to be rolled out sometime over the summer, and were accurate with their prediction.

Nvidia has had a steady control of the video game graphics card market, although AMD hopes its recent agreement with Havok will help the struggling ATI brand better compete in the future. AMD was forced to make a move with Intel-owned Havok after Nvidia purchased Ageia.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company plans to continue to roll out both mobile and desktop graphics gaming cards with Ageia technology throughout the remainder of the year.

Well, well well… it worked!

I was just reading a press release from Apple about selling 1 million iPhone’s last weekend, most of which, no doubt, were bought to fire up a slanging match between the new owner and the blogger in the USA who has had enough of the iPhone people telling him where to shove his old bit of technology.. (thanks Kit for that bit of info

So before the blogging war really kicks off using the superfluous user “functionality” of these phones as ammunition - ie: “My iPhone has a touch screen that can rotate” or “My Nokia has a 5 mega pixel video camera so its better that yours!!”, let me share with you the REAL reason why these iPhones really are the coolest phone gadget to ever hit the communications industry, and why they will be very hard to beat..

I am now an official iPhone Developer, Yes, let me say that again, iPhone Developer… Besides the Symbian community out there, how many mobile phones can be used as a true profitable development platform? This option alone allows people outside of the hardware manufacturer, to leverage off the product marketing and user base and sell applications and ACTUALLY MAKE MONEY!…

from launch to now, there has been 10 million downloads from the new iPhone App store Apple actually allows iPhone developers to use this portal to sell their wares.. With some of the developers software selling for around $9.00 or so, you could potentially do quite well and make some serious cash… Apple even allows you to give away your software for free, if you choose, just to get exposure…

So what better way to make some money, than jump on the back of this great device and get yourself an iPhone!..

Apple Australia will officially announce the TV inclusions today…

After months of anticipation, the heavily rumored 3G iPhone was announced today during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference

Features
- 3G - Great for our Australian networks
- GPS built-in
- Better battery life than previous iPhones
- 300 hours of standby
- 2G talk-time 10 hours (as opposed to 5)
- 5 hours of 3G talk-time (competition is 3 hour 3G talk time)
- 5 to 6 hours of high-speed browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio.
- flush headphone jack - great for non Apple earbuds…

Pricing and Availability
The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in Australia via Vodaphone and Optus stores nationwide.
As of this post, no conformation of the Australian pricing has been made by Apple Australia nor Optus or Vodaphone, but Steve Jobs in his keynote stipulated the price will be the same worldwide. If this is confirmed to be correct, the price would be AUS $199.00 for 8 GB and AUS $299.00 for 16 GB.
The 16 GB model also comes in white.
* Please note there is no mention as of yet of what “Plans” Optus and Vodaphone are offering, so it may be better to enquire first.
Apple has posted more details on their website, but it is currently its being bombarded and a bit overwhelmed.

Citing a person familiar with the situation, the technology website confirms several details of the next major Mac OS X upgrade first reported on Tuesday, including a scheduled release as soon as Macworld 2009 this coming January, and that it will not introduce any major new features.

Instead, Snow Leopard is said to focus heavily on performance optimization and security, a move that will in all likelihood widen the gap between Mac OS X and Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system in those areas.

“Things like the MacBook Air, iPhone, iPod touch, and other mysterious devices that have yet to be announced need better performance for better battery life, and that’s definitely something Apple wants to excel at in the years to come,” wrote Ars‘ Jacqui Cheng.

Unconfirmed is whether the software will be shown off or discussed at the company’s annual developers conference next week. However, AppleInsider in recent weeks has been told to expect discussion of “another big cat” at the event.

Also unconfirmed, but somewhat likely, is that Apple will completely wrap Snow Leopard in its Cocoa application programming interface (API) set, meaning that applications written via the company’s legacy Carbon API will fail to run on the new system.

Adding corroboration to an report published last September, Ars adds that Mac OS X 10.6 is expected to support only Intel-based Macs, leaving owners of PowerPC-based systems of yesteryear out in the cold.

Update: Ars updates its report saying: “There may be some disagreement here as to what exactly “Cocoa-only” means, so take that into account when thinking about this. For example, Apple may only axe Carbon UI stuff.”

Simply called the 256GB FlashSSD, the Serial ATA drive reads in-order data at 200MB per second, or double the rate of Samsung’s past 128GB drive. It also boosts write speeds, often a bottleneck on solid-state drives, from 70MB per second to 160MB

But the real advancement, Samsung says, is in the manufacturing process. Past drives, including the 128GB model, have depended on flash memory using a technique known as single-level cell storage. While quick and reliable, the inability to store more than one bit of data in each cell results in a high cost per drive. The prices of single-level cell drives have often been a hurdle to notebooks, with options for the MacBook Air and other systems frequently costing $1,000 or more to switch to the faster technology.

The 256GB drive changes this by switching to a new approach to multi-level cell storage that allegedly solves the problems of the format. The technology allows data to be much more densely packed, but has traditionally been slow and short-lived. However, a new drive controller not only gives it the same speed as single-level storage but gives it the same kind of longevity, at roughly one million hours before a failure occurs.

As it’s more efficient in storing data, the multi-level cell technology is also “considerably” less expensive to make, though Samsung has stopped short of revealing the exact difference.

Until now, Apple has left multi-level cell flash memory to its iPhone and iPod devices, which are less dependent on speed and heavy disk access, but whether the MacBook Air or other Apple portables will use the the storage is unknown. Samsung plans a 1.8-inch version of the 256GB drive that will ship before the end of the year, and has been Apple’s sole choice for the MacBook Air’s solid-state drive to date: a 64GB drive is used inside Air models configured with the SSD storage option.

Other potential candidates have surfaced since the introduction of the ultraportable, however. Intel is reportedly preparing its own line of high-speed drives for release in the next quarter, while smaller rival STEC is claimed to have wrested the contract for the MacBook Air away from Samsung.

The Korean memory chip producer itself doesn’t provide any direct clues, but mentions that it’s “actively involved” in helping integrate solid-state drives into the systems of every top computer manufacturer in the US.