New rumors about GeForce GTX 460 coming at June 1st
There's no denying that NVIDIA needs to bring Fermi down to the mid-to-high-end space, and early rumours suggest it'll happen in less than two months. Acording to Chinese website Expreview.com, reliable sources claim a toned-down Fermi product named the GeForce GTX 460 will debut on June 1st. Take the date with a pinch of salt, but it doesn't take a reliable source to speculate that NVIDIA's next Fermi derivative will launch at COMPUTEX - which just so happens to run from June 1st to June 5th.
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Adobe Creative Suite 5 unveiled
Adobe has today revealed the fifth major release of its Creative Suite product family. Creative Suite 5 is expected to ship to consumers within 30 days, and includes upgrades to five suites comprising of a selection of up to 15 point products - including popular applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro and After Effects. Photoshop, arguably Adobe's most popular Creative Suite application, is once again at the forefront of the upgrades with new features including Content Aware Fill - a tool designed to remove areas of an image and dynamically fill the void to create a seamless effect.
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Meizu's iPad clone plays 1080p video
Chinese company Meizu revealed some of the first details of their iPad clone, the mBook. The tablet will be slightly smaller than its Apple counterpart at 8.4 inches but should play 1080p and officially last longer on battery at 12 hours. They promised the same 1024x768 resolution and capacitive touch as the iPad but noted it would have an HDMI output to show HD video at full size. The tablet should achieve many of its goals through a 1.5GHz processor (most likely Snapdragon) and would have all the features of Apple's 3G iPads, such as 3G with some form of GPS as well as high quality music playback. It's expected so far to run some form of Android, but heavily customized for the larger screen.
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General Electric's lightbulb lasts 17 years
General Electric has launched a new lightbulb, one that uses LED technology instead of compact fluorescents and that has a life expectancy of 17 years. The catch? The bulb costs $50 USD. The new bulb uses only 9 watts and provides a 77% energy savings while lasting up to 25 times longer than a current 40-watt CFL (compact fluorescent).
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Samsung B2430: A Massive Monitor
The largest representative of Samsung’s new series of economic models offers little new as far as its design goes, but certainly can’t be deemed obsolete either. Glossy black plastic, with a transparent accent on the lower side of the screen frame, appears to be the current trend. The screen frame could certainly be narrower, but that comes down to each user’s taste anyway. Touch-responsive buttons help maintain the clean, rounded lines and enable easy adjustment via the logically organized OSD menu. A swivel-less base and the impossibility of tilting the screen towards the user past the 90 degree point relative to the surface the monitor is placed on may be counted as flaws.
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