New & Noteworthy: GeForce3 card delay; FinePix cameras; Adobe ships After Effects; largest FireWire drive; more

GeForce3 video cards delayed, Apple responds Apple has pushed back the delivery date for built to order Macs equipped with nVidia GeForce3 video cards. Apple has given users who have already been waiting a choice: take delivery now of a machine equipped with a GeForce2 card and get a free upgrade when the cards become available, cancel the order, or wait until the expected ship day, which is now sometime in May.

FinePix digital cameras available Fujifilm has released two new digital cameras, the FinePix 6800 Zoom and FinePix 2300, priced at $899 and $279 respectively.

Adobe Ships After Effects 5.0 According to the press release, it is available immediately for $649 for the Standard version and $1,499 for the Production Bundle version. More info is also available on VersionTracker.

New LaCie FireWire drive LaCie is shipping high-capacity FireWire hard drive, a 75 GB 3.5" 7200 rpm desktop model. The drive can store more than 5 hours of DV video, is hot-pluggable, and can be formatted to allow sharing files between Mac and Windows computers. Although LaCie claims this is the largest FireWire drive available, several users have noted that Maxtor makes an 80GB model.

Update: In defense of LaCie, other readers pointed out that the Maxtor is only a 5400 rpm drive.

MacHack keynote: And Then There Were Six On hand for the MacHack keynote this year will be six members of the original Macintosh engineering team: Andy Hertzfeld, Guy “Bud” Tribble, Caroline Rose, Bruce Horn, Donn Denman, and Jef Raskin.

Quicken beta testers sought Intuit has posted a Web page seeking beta testers for Quicken 2002 for the Mac, dubbed K2.