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Hello,
I've ready recently that the W701 is going to be killed off
Anyhow, that being the case, I was holding out on ordering a W701ds in anticipation of Sandy Bridge, but since the series is dead I suppose there isn't much point in that... Anyhow, I was wondering if, it would be at all possible to upgrade the W701 to a Sandy Bridge CPU, or are the chipset/sockets incompatible? I really hope they aren't, but my gut tells me they are.

I don't know much about SB sockets, but if past history is any indication, the answer would be no.

well is it confirmed for sure that there will be no W702 with Sandy Bridge?

no way for SB
Intel sucks

lol...How is this Intel's fault?

To the OP: I don't think you can. The chipset is different. From a "RAM point of view", it would be possible. You can definitely any W701/W701ds to a quad-Core i7-940XM Extreme Edition, which should be coming down in price fairly quickly.