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Hello All
Sorry if this has been covered before (and from a brief search it doesn't appear to have been). But does anyone have any information as to when we might see the T61/p?
Will it still have the same GPU in the V5200? Any other significant changes expected?
Only wondering if its going to be worth the wait?
Thanks
JB

There was a post around here which had a Lenovo timeline with the T61 to be released in Jan. 2007.

We don't know much about what it will have inside yet, except everyone is pretty sure that it will have Core 2 Duo (Merom), the successor to the current Core Duo (Yonah). If you do a search on "merom" in this forum, you'll find lots of debate.

Any chance of the T61p 14" having a FlexView screen? I was going to buy my wife a 14" T60p, but we can wait if there's a chance of this happening and for the benefits of Merom.

astro wrote:There was a post around here which had a Lenovo timeline with the T61 to be released in Jan. 2007.

We don't know much about what it will have inside yet, except everyone is pretty sure that it will have Core 2 Duo (Merom), the successor to the current Core Duo (Yonah). If you do a search on "merom" in this forum, you'll find lots of debate.

The T61 has already been presented and demoed by Intel Merom press conferences, about 3 weeks ago (pictures see internet).
The merom will be shipped in volume by Q3/2006 because Intel is speeding up its ramp up, due to high pressures of investment analysts who started bashing Intel stocks.

Since AMD is giving Intel a hard time and kicked Intel's butt, I guess those folks in Santa Clara have become more busy recently.

AFAIK, the Lenovo roadmap is still based on the old Intel forecast. If Core 2 Duos are shipping in Q3, nobody would delay a notebook launch for 4-6 months. Especially when you can get the new Dells and HPs with Meroms.

beeblebrox wrote:

astro wrote:There was a post around here which had a Lenovo timeline with the T61 to be released in Jan. 2007.

We don't know much about what it will have inside yet, except everyone is pretty sure that it will have Core 2 Duo (Merom), the successor to the current Core Duo (Yonah). If you do a search on "merom" in this forum, you'll find lots of debate.

The T61 has already been presented and demoed by Intel Merom press conferences, about 3 weeks ago (pictures see internet).
The merom will be shipped in volume by Q3/2006 because Intel is speeding up its ramp up, due to high pressures of investment analysts who started bashing Intel stocks.

Since AMD is giving Intel a hard time and kicked Intel's butt, I guess those folks in Santa Clara have become more busy recently.

AFAIK, the Lenovo roadmap is still based on the old Intel forecast. If Core 2 Duos are shipping in Q3, nobody would delay a notebook launch for 4-6 months. Especially when you can get the new Dells and HPs with Meroms.

If I recall correctly, we couldn't verify that the Thinkpads shown at that convention, somewhere in Germany, were T60s or the T61s. The specs did list the Meorm cores as well.

As to the release date, I don't know if that has changed much and nobody at Intel seems to be hurrying to get them out the door at cost to everything else. AMD's shares were hammered by analysts awhile back; for some reason, the markets and investors have never really liked AMD although the user base is quite content with them.

jvarszegi wrote:Any chance of the T61p 14" having a FlexView screen? I was going to buy my wife a 14" T60p, but we can wait if there's a chance of this happening and for the benefits of Merom.

I don't know of any LCD manufacturer who makes 14" IPS (AKA FlexView) LCDs, so I guess in this case T61 won't help.

Looks like Intel is going full out on this and the benchmarks look pretty impressive.

See; http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/04 ... ore_2_duo/

So it can be estimated that the Merom will have about 25% more on top of the performance of the Yonahs we have right now; processors will already ship to the partners in one month, so we might be seeing previews of individual lines by August or November if they are quick about it.

Although what really grabbed me was the quad-core Kentsfield; talk about alot of power. It wasn't made clear if there are any plans to go mobile with it soon, though.