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Does anyone have a sense of the time line for incorporation of the Merom (Core 2 duo) processor into Lenovo X series machines?

Allan

I would really like to know this as well because I placed an order for an x60s on friday and now then heard about merom. Soooo if you can only imagine my dillemma. Granted im more concerned about price, and not performance. If it doesnt ship for another week or and there is word of merom in that time period I may cancel my order, if not I may have to just return it within 30 days.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/ ... 571,00.htm

"Systems with Merom should begin to appear around the end of August, according to sources"

This is idle speculation:
Maybe the end of August. The Thinkpads with Core Duo seemed to take a little longer to show up than some other manufacturers. Even if they showed up on the website at the end of August and you ordered on that day, you might still have another month to wait (there always seem to be backorders on new machines). I'd guess you might have something in your hands as early as late as September and as late as early December. The real date will probably be late October/early November. I suspect the new Tablets will incorporate Merom and rumor is that they're slated for January, so the regular X series with Merom will probably come out before the tablets arrive.

Then again, maybe Lenovo will shock everyone and be the first to ship a Merom machine and Intel will have produced adequate quantities of processors to meet demand. Another question is if the X60s will use a Merom low voltage processor and, if so, will that processor be ready when the regular Meroms roll out?