In which we send PC Magazine's product reviews coordinator (and part-time intrepid reporter), PJ Jacobowitz, deep into the our labs, in order to rifle through all of the cool stuff that we get in the mail. Check out what he found, this week, after the jump.

Apple MacBook Pro

Apple is the Beatles of technology right now, which makes me wonder which product they release is going to be their Yoko Ono. In the meantime, we find ourselves review nearly every product the company releases. While we're still waiting to get the iPhone in the labs, we're busying ourselves testing the new 15-inch MacBook Pro. Apple's new Pro was recently outfitted with the Intel's Santa Rosa chipset. Santa Rosa increases the processor's frontside bus from 667MHz to 800MHz. The Santa Rosa notebooks that we've tested thus far have shown performance increases of up to 10 percent. The Macbook also got a new LED-Backlight display and an upgraded graphics card, the nVidia GeForce 8600M GT. Normally we'd have already posted the reviews of the new MacBook, but these notebooks need new Windows drivers. When we test Apple systems, we throw Boot Camp on them, so we can run benchmarks on the Windows OS.

The JVC Everio GZ-HD7 and the JVC Everio Sharestation CU-VD40

A year ago, there were only one or two high-definition consumer camcorders on the market. Now nearly every manufacture has got a high-def model. More products means competitive pricing and better features. When JVC announced their GZ-HD7 camcorder, a few of its features grabbed our attention. First off, thanks to its internal 60GB hard drive, you may never need to spend a dollar on tape again. According to JVC, the drive can capture around five hours of video on its highest setting. But what this camcorder really brings to the table is the ability to shoot video at a resolution of 1920x1080i AKA, 1080i. Other camcorders have claimed to record at "1080i" before, but they skimp on the horizontal resolution and actually record at 1440 x 1080i.

Sansa Shaker

Yep, it's exactly what it sounds like: an MP3 player that looks like a salt shaker. The Sansa Shaker uses a single AAA battery and plays MP3s off a SD memory card. Kids can shake it to change tracks. This product didn't do much for me, however Lance Ulanoff's eyes almost popped out of his head when he saw it in our inventory room. "Make sure Tim [Gideon, our lead analyst for audio] knows about this." Shortly after, our print photographer Scott Schedivy started walking around with it, shaking MP3s, with a gigantic smile on his face.

Post by PJ Jacobowitz