Apple customarily reserves Tuesday for its product refreshes. The iMac now has faster memory, and higher clocking Intel Core i3, i5, and for the 27-inch model, quad i7 and solid-state-drive options, all with new ATI Radeon graphics that reach up to the 5750. The professional Mac Pro will feature a 6-core Intel Xeon processor that tops out at 3.33GHz. Apple’s new gear include a 27-inch Cinema Display and the leaked Magic Trackpad. More »

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Fermi is NVIDIA’s answer to ATI’s top dogs, but what about gamers on a tight budget? Should we be cast aside like yesterday’s trash? NVIDIA’s crippled Fermi GeForce GTX 465 was a waste of $300. The GTX 460 is priced accordingly and unlike the 465 (which is a stripped down GF100), it is based off a brand new core, the efficient and muscular GF104. More »

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This is not the lower-end GTX 450, 440, and 430 that was suggested a few months ago; instead, the GeForce GTX 465 is going to be a rather expensive upper-mid-range graphics card just below the GTX 470 and comparable to a Radeon 5850. eNet has the GTX 465 and has conducted benchmarks. More »

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Not many gamers can rationalize forking over $499 for the GTX 480 or $349 for the GTX 470, so the rest of us can look forward to NVIDIA’s low and mid-range Fermi graphics cards that are rumored to be arriving in a few months. More »

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Everyone has known that NVIDIA’s Fermi release date was March 26th, but until today, the specs and prices were not confirmed. VR-Zone has an official picture of the GTX 480, along with prices and numbers for both the 480 and 470. More »

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NVIDIA is hosting a “Special ‘Must See’ Presentation” on March 26th at PAX East 2010. Via Twitter, the company has announced that its top-end GTX 480 and GTX 470 graphics cards will be available on March 26th. More »

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Originally scheduled for a November 2009 launch, nVidia has pushed back the release of its “Fermi” Graphics Processing Unit until March. Hard at work, the company has supposedly been ironing out kinks before it is ready to unleash Fermi. Already trailing ATi in the ultra high performance sector, nVidia desperately needs this GPU to be everything that it is promising. With already stiff competition in the integrated graphics department from Intel (whose 4500M dominates all Intel based budget and consumer laptops and some desktops) and AMD’s Fushion (ATi), nVidia must strike back against arch rival ATi in the mid to upper tier markets. More »

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Low on Price, High on Design Continued from part 1. Using the increasingly more popular 16:9 aspect ratio for its screen, the NV53 is quite portable for a fully-loaded laptop. At under 6 pounds, I find it light enough to carry around just about anywhere. The measurements of 25cm depth, 37.2cm width, and 3.7cm thickness are comparable with other low-end offerings. I do like the style and sturdiness of the Gateway’s hinge, which is similar to Sony’s FW and Z series, with the power button on the side of the right hinge. More »

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Based on specs alone, this is the best laptop that $450 CDN can buy right now. There is the $400 USD Toshiba Satellite with the same CPU but slower Radeon 4100 graphics, no HDMI, no webcam, and no digital audio output. Best Buy also sells a Dell Inspiron with similar specs for $450, and although it has the more desirable Intel T4300 Dual Core CPU, its 4500M graphics and lack of HDMI, webcam, and digital audio output makes it (on paper) worse than the Gateway. Numbers and features aside, whether the Gateway NV is actually any good will be judged by its performance, design implementation, and overall usability. More »

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Apple’s frustration with NVIDIA has boiled over and now Apple will be replacing them with AMD. AMD announced today upcoming Macbook Pro and iMacs will have the Radeon 4000 series graphic cards. The 4000 series supports DirectX 10.1 with OpenCL, which is now supported on Snow Leopard.

The Macbook Pro will be getting the ATI Radeon 4870, while the iMacs get the 4850. This news comes after NVIDIA graphic cards were blamed for over heating, higher failure rates and graphic issues. NVIDIA will definitely feel the loss, since Apple was one of their biggest partners. NVIDIA did say their next generation graphic cards will correct the heat issues and will once again have Apple as a partner. If things go smoothly over at AMD, Apple may never come back. More »

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ATI soundly whooped NVIDIA’s butt with their HD 4850 and 4870 the last time around, but since then, NVIDIA has had some time to get their GTX line up to snuff. Introducing the GTX 275, a high-end graphics card that sits right in between the GTX 260 and GTX 285 (I guess GTX 272.5 would’ve looked weird). Well, not if ATI has anything to say about it - More »

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