Recent Thinkpad price drop: making room for Penryn?

[apbudha]

The latest Intel processor, now on 45nm wafers are supposed to come out next month. Was there also a price drop before the core 2 duo and [xtr]61 lines came out? Is Lenovo pushing out inventory of 65 nm cpus they are stocked up on, or rather *gasp* trying to compete with Dell/HP and make the Thinkpad a consumer rather than business laptop?

[draco2527]

The latest Intel processor, now on 45nm wafers are supposed to come out next month. Was there also a price drop before the core 2 duo and [xtr]61 lines came out? Is Lenovo pushing out inventory of 65 nm cpus they are stocked up on, or rather *gasp* trying to compete with Dell/HP and make the Thinkpad a consumer rather than business laptop?

Hey Mr. keep your comments to yourself..

Seriously, I think there is a lot of truth in this...sad...depending on how you look at it. In all honesty, WHO NEEDS anything faster!!! The point of a laptop is so you can use it on the GO, and when you do that the proc speed and everything else drops like crazy. Yeah you can set everything to "max" but there goes your battery life. I think these things are going to reach a point were it will be overkill...all of a sudden is like everyone can afford an exotic sports car(comparison...PERFORMANCE ONLY...NOT LOOKS, $ etc) but 99% of them will never go above 70-80 MPH and forget about the car ever seeing a track...so wasted resources IMHO. Almost everyone I know creates word documents, surf the web and IM...that is IT!

[BillMorrow]

there have been consumer (i.e. non-business oriented) thinkpads before..

the iSeries comes to mind..

also, thinkpads have always been "cutting edge"..

and look to the positive side of the equation..
think of all those great thinkpads which will be much cheaper to buy..!

the laptop market, like life in general, is pretty much a mixed bag..

[rleo25]

... and of course cutting down inventory figures is a vital need in the notebook industry, think of a costly product whose life cycle is shorter than its sales one, if it weren´t for this handicap we would see new models in the stores each two months, the post makes sense to me too...

[bill bolton]

In all honesty, WHO NEEDS anything faster!!!

Many business/professional/commecrial level users most definitely do, even if you personally don't.

Cheers,

Bill B.