How long untill Dell offers solid state and discrete graphics for the d630

I'm itching to buy one of the new D630's but I've heard rumors they will be offering it with discrete graphics and SSD pretty soon. Does anyone know which graphics card they will be offering and how much longer it will be before we get the solid state drives? The solid state drive I can always buy later and install myself. But if I get it with the current integrated Intel graphics then I'm stuck with those graphics.

 

where have you heard this? What's SSD exactly? What do you think mean "soon"?

 

It looks like the discrete graphics are available as of today:

128MBNVIDIA®QuadroNVS135M™ [add $70]

No idea on SSD.

tjk

 

Lies. That's on the D620

And why would you want an SSD?

 

That is on the D630 and D830 as well.

 

Show me! I don't see it here

 

O! You have to select the integrated option and then unselect it. Is that retarded or it just me?

Anyway this is cool. I just may buy a D630 now

 

ship date with the quadro is ~ 7/16
I dont know if I can stand to wait a whole month..

 

I couldn't tell from the Dell website, but does this card have a full 128 of dedicated graphics or is it like 64 of dedicated and 64 shared?

Unrelated: Is the D630 a Santa Rosa system? I keep seeing posts saying it is, but I would think Dell would advertise such a thing, but I don't see it anywhere.

 

Santa Rosa is an Intel codename for the latest Centrino platform, none of the major OEM's are going to advertise their laptops as such. And yes, the D630 is Santa Rosa.

 

I just configured a D630 to take a discrete. This is new, I've been watching the product. The only hint that discrete was coming in June that I found was this page from the University of Pennsylvania. On point 5 of that page they say:

I spoke with a Dell sales rep and he refused to confirm this point two weeks ago. Regardless I'm planning on picking a D630 up in early August. What's this about a quad core coming to this series?

I was planning on the T7700 at this point. I was surprised about the performance difference between the t7700 and t7500 processors. Here's benchmarks.

It's almost hard to believe that a mobile quad could come out and significantly boost the price/performance on this guy, but at the least it might make the t7700 more affordable.

I've been watching availability of hybrid drives as well. You want an SSD/magnetic plate drive because the SSD portion is used by the santa rosa platform and Vista to decrease the amount of time it takes to go to and return from a sleep state.

Configuring the Dell D630 right now will not allow you to choose this 120Gb hybrid.. Which is weird because that product page says:

Which is weird. Because you can not select this drive when configuring the 630. I haven't tried the 830.