So, just recently, I was saying that I hadn’t heard much about the mid/high-end 9M chips from Nvidia.  Today, at Computex 2008, Nvidia came out and announced a whole bunch of them.  While they strangely left out important specifications like core and memory clock speeds, it is nice to see the cards going official.  The top-of-the-line card for now seems to be the 9600M GT, although I saw the 9650M GT being mentioned somewhere as well.  Of course, they’ll bust out the real high end 9800/9900 cards down the line but those are intended for beasts like the Dell XPS M1730.

I’m hoping that a 512MB 9600M GT finds its way into the XPS M1530.  I might go for it even if Centrino 2 will be delayed - I was more concerned about the graphics anyway.  The T9400 will bring no power savings over the T9300.  Sure, it will feature a 1.06GHz FSB, but I’m not entirely convinced that it will bring in a large performance boost.  I wouldn’t mind being proven wrong though.

Among other things, EMI allowed iTunes to sell the entire Radiohead (who are no longer with EMI) backcatalog and I’m still theme-hunting.  I have a couple that I will try out soon but no promises on when a new theme will actually go live!