X41 Information?

[joprodse]

No news or gossip about the upcomming X41? There's a lot of buzz about the T43 model but very hush hush about the X41

Anybody?

[nckesq]

I was on the verge of buying the X40 until I discovered that the X41 will be released during Q1 this year (if I'm not mistaken sometime in April). I did a Google search and nothing came up (even in the form of a short paragraph) ... I don't imagine there will be any significant changes other than the Centrino Sonoma & possibly a 60G hard drive. Keep us posted if you find anything on the net.

[beq]

Will the X41 really be that long in coming? Last I heard, another site listed the tentative dates as March for T43 and April for X41.

But in fact the T43 is supposed (?) to be here anyday now (and today is still January), so I'm really hoping the X41 will also be here sooner than April?

Anyways I would also like to find out more details on the X41...

[nckesq]

FYI, the T43 should ship at the end of Feb (after the 25th to be exact) but IBM has not made any formal statements as to when the X41 will be available. Also, it's the T43, and not the T43p that will be released. Hope this info help!

[joprodse]

no more inside storys about the release of the X41 then...?

[beq]

Thanks for the info nckesq.

Anyways, some questions that I have:

For the Intel wireless solution (which is usually bundled in the majority of ThinkPad stock models to get Centrino label I suppose), will the X41 have an 11a/b/g (+ Bluetooth combo) Intel part, as opposed to the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG 11b/g (+ Bluetooth combo) on the current X40?

HDD possibly bigger than 40GB?

Possible biometric fingerprint reader?

I also look forward to the purported great increase in Intel graphics performance w/o battery drain