E6420 coming soon?

I have not heard anything about the graphics so far. Any info? I think with Sandy Bridge the discrete graphics option needs is lessened, but would happy to see with a strong 1GB FirePro.

 

As long as it doesn't go 16:9 I'll be happy! I doubt they'll just switch gears to ATi just like that..

 

Why not? Latitude D600 and d610 used to build with ATI discrete graphics, time to bring back.

 

lol that was ages ago...and I meant along the current lines on the E64x0 series they have stuck with the Quadros, and rumors are it is going to be another Quadro card they are putting in the new 14" line of the E series Latitudes.

 

Not sure Dell why that so faithful to Nvidia, especially after the millions faulty 8400M and 8600M GPUs. I would take everything back to the right track.

 

Good point, but it was TSMC which supplied the faulty bump material. Regardless it maybe cost which is why Dell decided to stick with Nvidia. I have heard from alot of my friends who are in the art business that some CAD/rendering programs do not like the ATi FireGL/FirePro cards. No, I'm not a fanboy, I'm just saying there might be factors we cannot all see.

 

Dell's been pretty consistent with Nvidia since the D620 days.

Lenovo, on the other hand, has switched between the two since T60. T60 was ATI, T61 was Nvidia, T400/T500 was ATI (probably because of G84/G86 fiasco). T410/T510 are back to Nvidia, etc.

 

Well for the business models they kept with Nvidia, the Studio XPS went to ATi after the Nvidia fiasco, 3670/4670 but went back to Nvidia for the new XPS. I suppose Dell crossed their fingers for the newer Nvidia chips despite being burned on the XPS, Vostro, Latitudes affected by the G84M/G86M chips..

 

While we're on the topic of the E6420 possibly being 16:9, can someone please explain to me how Apple is able to get an incredibly good 4:3 screen for the iPad but they're (and 16:10 now too) all but dead in real notebooks? Those 4:3 screens aren't appearing out of thin air. I'd love to have a new Sandy Bridge-based notebook with a proper 1400x1050 SXGA+ screen.

 

Tablet is probably designed to be used both in horizontal-like-laptop position as well as in vertical-like-book position, hence the 4:3 aspect ratio to let users hold it the way they prefer, which IMO should be like that for all tablets, otherwise its useless if you are supposed to hold your tablet only horizontally, like you do using laptop/desktop screens.
If you loose screen real estate in book mode, then there is not much use for tablet IMO.