There was some news floating around over the past week or so that Apple may switch from integrated Intel graphics to NVIDIA graphics in its new MacBook Pro 2008 edition and during the launch event being held right now, Jobs confirmed it for us all.

This new notebook from Apple will employ the use of NVIDIA GeForce 9400 M, which Jobs calls "an amazing chip".

Egan Orion over at the INQ is reporting that ASUS shipped 4,500 Eee Box systems into Japan with a malware virus called "recycled.exe". According to ASUS, only systems sold in Japan are affected.

The virus is located on the D drive partition and once the user first starts up the system, it will copy itself to the master boot drive and any attached drives. The malware will slow down the users Eee Box and attempt to download more dangerous bits and bytes from the Internet.

Reknowned for being one of the best aftermarket coolers on the market, the Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme has been selling like hotcakes for well over a year with very little else to have come out that threatens its turf.

Not all that long ago Thermalright gave it a bit of a restyle, dressing it in a stealthy black nickel plated covering which some found not only even more aesthetically pleasing, but also superior in terms of its heat transfer properties.

Fast forward a few more months and it's been brought to our attention that Thermalright plan to release the most badass derivative of all, a full-copper model from head to toe.

No doubt for the majority of you who moved over to Vista, the words "User Account Control" (or UAC for short) was quick to raise its ugly head and give you a sour experience; until you found out the pesky and overly domineering 'security' feature could be turned OFF, that is.

Well, you'll be glad to know Microsoft are now acknowledging that UAC was certainly way too restrictive and has learned from its mistake. The giant software mob hopes to put things right with Windows 7; UAC will still be there, but the company will first and foremost tone it down so it's not so 'in your face'.

XFX reckons and we aren't kidding, Now You Can Have the "Mother" You've Always Wanted.

Yep, that's right, as you can see above in the marketing poster. XFX is out with its brand new nForce 750i SLI motherboard and now usually wwe don't get excited because XFX normally use NVIDIA made boards but from what we can see, this board looks to be made and designed by XFX.

While sadly ASUS forgot to invite us to its X58 launch event last week in Taipei, A-DATA were kind enough to send through plenty of data about the event for us to talk about right here.

ASUS were out in force showing off their ranges of Core i7 supported X58 Express motherboards to attending press but maybe more interesting was the fact that A-DATA displayed its DDR3-1600X triple channel memory working at 2000MHz DDR (and beyond) - oh and by the looks of things, there were plenty of showgirls on standby incase the crowd got bored.

With ASUS having already let loose stacks of info and images on their upcoming desktop lineup of X58 motherboards (including the P6T Deluxe and Rampage II Extreme), it appears they've got their workstation oriented desktop boards almost readied up as well.

A chap over at XFastest kindly uploaded some quality images of the boards, these comprising two models; the P6T6 WS Revolution and P6T WS Pro.

Collider have a pretty interesting article interview with Pixar director Jim Morris regarding re-rendering Toy Story for 3D.

Next year, Disney will re-release Pixar's 1995 classic to 3D theatres, in preparation for the release of Toy Story 3 in 2010. However, it seems that technology bottlenecks back in the day meant the film could only be rendered in 720p. So not only do Pixar have to re-jig the original files for 3D, they also need to re-render the film at a much higher resolution (most likely 4K resolution), so hopefully we will have Toy Story looking great in 1080p for the eventual Blu-ray release.

Intel's forthcoming Core i7 lineup of codenamed Nehalem processors are not due to go on sale till the second part of next month.

However, that didn't stop us getting our hands on an engineering sample Core i7 920 processor clocked at 2.66GHz (133MHz x 20) from a secret bunker hidden well underground... :)

Super Talent today debuted its new line of mini PCI-Express SSD drives which are specifically designed for ASUS' range of Eee PC netbooks.

ASUS Eee PC's only come with up to 20GB of storage and clearly Super Talent has been smart in designing a product which expand storage, and importantly, at a viable price point.