Release 260 adds support for our latest GeForce GTS 450 and GeForce GT 430 desktop GPUs and for many of our new GeForce 400M notebook GPUs. Release 260 drivers provide a nice performance boost for GeForce 400 Series GPUs and add support for the ultimate home theater experience with Blu-ray 3D and lossless surround sound. They also add support for OpenGL 4.1 and come with a brand new driver installer. You can read more about all of the features in my earlier Release 260 blogs here and here.

Enjoy version 260.89 and let us know what you think!

Version 260.89 also includes several bug fixes from the earlier beta release and adds SLI support for some of the latest PC gaming titles including Dead Rising 2 and City of Heroes: Going Rogue.

The new version 260.89 can be downloaded here. We expect to post a WHQL-certified version soon.

Enjoy Release 260 and the new GT 430!

Today, as part of its celebration of 60 million ThinkPad notebooks sold, Lenovo announced the first business class Optimus notebooks perfect for the mobile professional: the ThinkPad T410, T510, & T410s. Equipped with NVIDIA NVS 3100M graphics, these Optimus notebooks give you the graphics power you want with the battery life you need.

So whether you’re putting a visually intensive presentation together on a long-haul flight, heading up three floors to share the latest multimedia design, or in a meeting that’s already way past the scheduled end time, you’ll be confident knowing your notebook can keep up with you.

To learn more, visit Lenovo.com and watch the video above to see it in action.

The time has come.

With new GeForce 400M Series GPUs launching this week at IFA Berlin, a flood of new designs are launching now and over the next couple months. The list of OEMs contains a few names you might recognize – Asus, Acer, Toshiba, Samsung, Dell, Sony, Lenovo, MSI, LG, and more.

Expect a range of form factors from the big and powerful, to the small and svelte. Check out the glamour shots below for a better idea of some of the just-announced notebook models.

On the Optimus notebook front Asus, Acer, Samsung, & Lenovo are ready to show off their latest:

Acer Aspire 5745G and 5745PG

Asus N53

Asus N73

 

Samsung QX410

Lenovo IdeaPad Y460

And the 3D Vision universe is growing with new notebook designs from Acer & Asus:

Acer Aspire 5745PG

Asus G53

Look for more 400M powered notebooks announced soon.

NVIDIA Product Manager, Mark Aevermann demos some of the notebook choices you’ll have for the upcoming holiday season, in this week’s NVIDIA in a Minute video. The Optimus notebooks featuring GeForce 400M Series GPUs offer great performance for HD Video, High-Res Photos, Accelerated Web, and Next-Gen Gaming. The competition? Not so much.

Not to be outdone, new 3D Vision notebooks from Acer and Asus are also debuting at IFA. The Asus G53Jw 15” and G73Jw 17” notebooks feature the new GTX 460M – ideally spec’ed for keeping your friends close and your enemies closer in Mafia II 3D. The Acer Aspire 5745DG features the GT 425M and is aggressively priced to move into your living room so you can enjoy your favorite Blu-Ray 3D movies or US Open tennis streamed in 3D.

The new WHQL-certified version 257.21 can be downloaded here. This driver supports GeForce and ION desktop PCs as well as NVIDIA notebook PCs running Windows 7 or Windows Vista, including those with NVIDIA Optimus technology.

Our next Release 256 driver is planned for the end of this month and will support NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology!

And, right after Computex, Dell announced that the world’s most powerful 11-inch gaming notebook, the Alienware M11x, would now have NVIDIA Optimus technology.

Today, Toshiba rolled out their 2010 models. Their Toshiba Satellite A665 and Satellite M645 laptops have select models equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce 310M and GeForce GT330M graphics processors, and those systems also include NVIDIA Optimus technology.

I am impressed with these laptops and their awesome Fusion X2 finish, which blends a durable textured surface over the cover and palm rests with a glossy trim. But they are not all about looks, as they blend style with multimedia performance by using the latest performance-class components and cutting-edge technologies designed to boost high-def entertainment, productivity and creativity.

So there you have it: Acer, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba. Four biggies to add to Asus as providers of Optimus-enabled systems. There are around 40 Optimus-enabled laptops and netbooks that have been announced so far. We have tiny-footprint NVIDIA ION netbooks, laptops from 13-inches to 15-inches and even high performance 11-inch gaming notebooks. The advantages of NVIDIA Optimus is undeniable, and I am glad consumers have a choice in just about any type of notebook they could desire.

Earlier this year Alienware launched the stunning Alienware M11x. It was truly a one-of-a-kind PC. Tagged as the most powerful 11” gaming laptop in the universe it made a huge splash on the market. Packaged in a beautiful black chassis accented with cool lighting, the Alienware M11x was tiny and powerful. It weighed less than 5 pounds, yet was powerful enough to play any game you wanted to throw at it. The press loved it and the reviews were sterling.

 

A quick trip over to Nangang Hall here at Computex uncovered even more NVIDIA Optimus-enabled notebooks on display by our partners. My favorite discovery was one additional Optimus-enabled notebook from both Gateway and Packard Bell, so now Gateway and Packard Bell both have two a piece. The two additional models are:

• Gateway ID49C (14”, GeForce GT 330M, 1GB)
• Packard Bell EasyNote Butterfly s (13.3”, GeForce 310M, 512MB)

A trip to the MSI booth also uncovered more Optimus-enabled notebooks.  In additional to the MSI FX 400 and FX 600 notebooks we showed at Cebit, MSI debuted  two new Optimus-enabled notebooks, bringing their total offering to four.  The new notebooks introduced at Computex by MSI are:

• MSI CX720 (17.3”, GeForce 310M, 1GB)
• MSI FX700 (17.3, an unidentified next-generation GeForce GPU)

Asus is at it again, with 8 Optimus notebooks and 2 Optimus enabled netbooks on display in their Computex booth in the Taiwan International Convention Center.  New additions to the Asus Optimus-enabled notebook line-up includes:

• Asus P52 (15.6”, GeForce 310M, 1GB)
• Asus U35 (13.3”, GeForce 310M, 1GB)
• Asus U45 (14”, GeForce 310M, 1GB)
• Asus N43 (14”, an unidentified next-generation GeForce GPU)
• Asus N73 (17.3”, GeForce GT 335M, 1GB)

With these new additions, Asus has shown a total of 17 Optimus-enabled notebooks and 2 Optimus-enabled netbooks since our launch!

If you want to offer your own Optimus notebook Compal has just the thing for you.  They are showing their NCL61 notebook (14”, GeForce GT 325M, 2GB) that is ready for your logo.

Computex has been a big coming out party for Optimus with 16 new NVIDIA Optimus-enabled notebooks announced at the show, bringing the total to over 30.  But we are not done yet.  We in the process if queue up two new manufacturers for later this month, so stay tuned.
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Last week at the Netbook Summit, NVIDIA GM Rene Haas said that we’d be making a slew of NVIDIA Optimus announcements in June. The apex of these, are four big-name notebook manufacturers with new Optimus systems. We’ll also have over 50 Optimus design wins by the end of summer.

Here at Computex, the Optimus train is chuggin' right along. New NVIDIA Optimus enabled notebooks debuted at the show from Lenovo, Gateway and Packard Bell  - which are on display in our 3D Vision Experience Center - among others. In total we're showing thirteen Optimus notebooks and netbooks -from nine different manufacturers, with even more in our partners' booths on the show floor.

Pics below show:

• Lenovo  Y460: 14 inch model with a GeForce 330M GPU and 1GB for VRAM
• Packard Bell EasyNote TX86: 15.6 inch model with a GeForce 330M GPU and 1GB for VRAM.
• Gateway EC39C: 13.3 inch model with a GeForce 310M GPU 512MB of VRAM.

Other Optimus enabled notebooks on display include:

• ASUS U33Jc (13.3",GeForce 310M, 1GB VRAM)
• ASUS UL80jt (14", GeForce 310M, 1GB VRAM)
• ASUS N53Jn (15.6", GeForce 335M, 1GB VRAM)
• Clevo B5100 (15", GeForce 330M, 1GB VRAM)
• MSI FX600 (15.6", GeForce 325M, 1GB VRAM)

Chinese manufacturer Haier, is also showing the 7G notebook featuring a GeForce 305M with Optimus and 512MB of VRAM, and Hasee, another Chinese manufacturer is showing the TW9A CT notebook with GeForce 335M and Optimus technology, and 1GB of VRAM in their booths.

As David Ragones mentioned in his recent post, here, we're also showing Optimus technology for netbooks, including two just-announced ASUS ION netbooks, the 12-inch EeePC 1215PN and the 10 inch EeePC 1015PN. We also have Acer's previously-announced 10 inch Aspire One 532G.

June is a huge month for NVIDIA Optimus announcements and Computex is just the start of things. More news to come!

Second, with the power of the GeForce GTX 480M GPUs, notebook manufacturers can set new records for notebook performance. Put simply: If a notebook maker wants to build the fastest possible system on the planet, they will start with GeForce GTX 480M as its foundation.

Third, we’ve now brought the vaunted Fermi architecture to notebooks. GeForce GTX 480M delivers nearly three times more NVIDIA CUDA cores over previous generation Notebook GPUs, which means users get unbelievably fast video transcoding, upscaling from standard definition to high definition and real-time movie clean-up with the click of a button.

And finally, the GeForce GTX 480M not only delivers the world’s best gaming frame rates, it also gives added features that no other GPU offers, including NVIDIA 3D Vision technology for an immersive gaming experience, NVIDIA PhysX technology that brings games to life with dynamic, interactive environments and NVIDIA Verde Notebook Drivers for the most up-to-date performance from your notebook.

We’re happy to partner with Clevo to introduce the first system based on GeForce GTX 480M. Stay tuned for more systems in the future.