When can we expect the new Ivy Bridge CPUs to appear in the XPS lineup?

And what performance/lower heat, etc... gains can we expect from them?

Basically, are they worth the wait compared to the current lineup if someone isn't in a hurry?

 

I am not sure of what the gains will be of this newer gen of CPU's that are coming out, but I can tell you that if you need an awesome computer now, there are some Sandy bridge CPU XPS' on sell at new egg and best buy for pretty good prices. Hurry though they are selling out quick.

Of course this is only if you are in a hurry much like I was. My Inspiron is falling apart after 5 very rugged years.

 

Well I have a couple of coupons that stack up at Dell Canada so the price there is good but I would wait if there's a big improvement in CPU or GPU this spring. This is a gift I'm getting but the person giving it to me is in no rush.

 

There is NEVER a time for "worth the wait" in the computer world. By the time you buy this so-called Ivy Bridge, there will always be something around the corner lurking at you for temptation. I've learned my lesson well when I bought my second computer in 1999 -- an $1,800 Pentium III paperweight with 128MB RAM!

 

waiting ivy bridge, much better then sandy bidge.

 

Ivy Bridge combined with a new nVidia Kelper GPU will make for some nice performance increases, lower power consumption and less heat so they will provide some benefits.

Really we can't say will it be worth the wait though. If you look at the desktop market, we were all very excited about AMD's release of Bulldozer. It was going to be great and push down prices etc ... But it fell flat on it's face, it managed to push up Intel's prices since now they have pretty much a monopoly on the CPU market.
So the same could happen with both Ivy Bridge and Kelper, but who knows they could be amazing and much better than we expected.

No-one can really answer the question for you. If I could wait the 3-6 months I would because I would expect an Ivy Bridge/Kelper laptop will be a lot better than current one's. But I couldn't wait. I love my XPS and if I was in your position(as I was a few weeks back) I would buy now.

 

Well, someone said there should be a 400MHz CPU frequency from corresponding extant models. That's not negligible if one won't overclock.

 

wouldn't bother waiting simply for the new CPUs, laptops are limited by the GPU when you're looking at gaming performance

when the new NVIDIA kepler GPUs are added to the XPS lineup then that'll be the boost you're after - until then the mobile sandy bridge lineup are still pretty awesome

 

I think not only cpu changes happen on l703x and l503x. But their display will use IPS display. Like HP Envy did and Standard RGBLED Full HD display for xps 17. =)

 

Good IPS panels are too expensive. The one in the Envy is crap. Look at the thread over in the Envy forum. If they do go IPS please get one with a wide color gamut

 

They won't bother... And I don't blame them, you don't need an IPS panel to have a decent quality one, the screen in my sig was only about £100 and rivals any apple screen... It's even better than the iiyama 24inch led monitor I've just bought (and that had pretty good reviews)


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This is not true. Say I'm in the market for a new laptop, but my old laptop still works well enough that it isn't an emergency. And say the next gen CPUs are only 1-2 months away. It is quite often worth the wait. You might say, well by then something else will be just around the corner, but this isn't really true. In all likelyhood, the next line of CPUs would be ~12 months away, not 1 or 2. That is a huge difference.

Even if the new CPUs don't have any features you'd need/want, you will still be able to get laptops with the older CPUs for considerably cheaper after the new lines launch.

However, if it's an emergency, or there isn't anything new imminent, it is probably not worth waiting. It's very situation specific.

 

yeah i mean not only ips. but dell will use at least b+rgled or RGBLED better. Hehe

 

I just got my sandy bridge and couldn't be happier. Like I said earlier I HAD to have a new laptop now and could not wait for anything later and greater to come out.

On a side note though... I remember a little program that everybody had to wait and get, it was called Vista... How long did it take you realize that waiting for that worthless pile of crap was pointless because you probably reverted back to XP after no longer than a month.

 

^^I was cursed twice; first with Windows Millennium in 1999 (the worst crap ever), and with Vista in 2009 (the sequel to Millennium, after crap). I didn't buy the OS but just happens to buy my computers during those times. I'm glad I bought a new system with a the Sandy Bridge i7, and most importantly it came with Windows7. Waiting for anything else is pointless because you can NEVER catch up.

 

Do u know what'll come on this 3rd gen xps beside processor and graphic changes?