lead_org wrote:
ThinkPad E430 and E530 are already shipping with Quad Core IB CPU, with a lead time of 12 days.
Interesting, lead_org, I see that on Lenovo's Australia site. But in the U.S., they're instead offering those machines with only the i3-2350M, i5-2450M, and i5-2520M Sandy Bridge processors, at least at the moment.
They use integrated graphics, except the more expensive E430 configuration in Australia has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M, and the more expensive E530 configuration in Australia has the NVIDIA N13P-GL The GT 630M may be 28 nm (good), or it may be 40 nm (not necessarily so good), the 28 nm version providing more processing power per watt, both still using the older Fermi architecture (vs. the newer Kepler architecture). I have no idea which version of that processor Lenovo is shipping, and perhaps they'll ship the 40 nm version first, then the 28 nm version later. The N13P-GL is a 28 nm Fermi shrink (from 40 nm), vs. the newer Kepler architecture. So buyers will be trying to sort out 40 nm vs. 28 nm, and Fermi vs. Kepler.
Why don't you buy one, and tell us how it works! 
