Ivy Bridge is almost here [ Edited ]

[ZipZap]

Hi, guys,

    It looks like Ivy Bridge is arriving this month after all.

    There are numerous articles about it on the web, such as this one:

HP is due next week

    Wither the "W530"?

    Ready for another round of beta testing?

                                                ZZ

[ZipZap]

Hi, guys,

    It looks like Ivy Bridge is arriving this month after all.

    There are numerous articles about it on the web, such as this one:

HP is due next week

    Wither the "W530"?

    Ready for another round of beta testing?

                                                ZZ

[ThorsHammer]

At the top of the article, there's an update

"Editors' note: HP has just clarified that these laptops will be using Sandy Bridge processors together with the new Panther Point (Intel HM77) chipset. Updated April 6, 11:46am (+8 GMT)"

[Jimbo]

This isn't specific to any single manufacturer, but should give you some reading material for awhile.

[stasik]

http://www.misco.nl/Cat/13821/Notebooks?Manufacturer__STRING=lov&Items=50&viewtype=list&page=1

[Jimbo]

Great catch, stasik.

So, since the ordering information for the W530, for example,  is already in the retail fulfillment chain, Lenovo presumably will announce their Ivy Bridge/Kepler machines on April 29.

[Jimbo]

I'm dying to see test results of Nvidia's killer GTX 680M Kepler-based mobile graphics processor (and workstation sibling) when it finally comes out, although that may take a bit longer (and may only ship in 17" machines). But it should have roughly 3.4 times the performance of the Quadro 2000M.

[ibmthink]

First picture of an Ivy-Bridge ThinkPad, the ThinkPad L530: http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/nps/laptops/L530.png

Available June 2012 

[Jimbo]

Interesting comparison of pre-release Ivy Bridge machine with W520.

[ibmthink]

First picture of the ThinkPad W530: http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/nps/laptops/W530.png

[flashnik]

Will keyborad be replaceable by good old classic from T520?
I dislike Edge-styled keyboard. It's not thinkpad with such unusable keys.