New Inspiron 15R Laptop with 8730M graphics

Not sure if this was old news or not, far as I know it was just announced during CES, but can now buy a machine with the new 8730M graphics. Which I believe is based on the GCN from the last gen, and not GCN 2.

btw. This is in NZD (New Zealand Dollars), considering our dollar here is pretty strong against the USD we still getting a bum deal. I cannot find the same model yet on the USA site.

Dell Inspiron 15R Laptop Details | Dell New Zealand

 

Cheers for letting know, hope I can get one in the netherlands fast , I am about to order an 15R SE, hope they will come with new grapchis 2

 

why in Gods name does DELL manufacturer a new model (and a R-model) with a slow GPU such as AMD 8730 ???

 

I been thinking, if the 8730M is the successor to the 7730M then why does it look on paper slower.
As in, less shaders and higher clock for the 8730M. Pretty sure the lower clocked 7730M should beat out the 8730M.

 

For anyone in the U.S., the new Inspirons will not be made available with the 1080p screens even though the option is there. This was confirmed by Lionel Menchaca of Dell. This may also apply to other countries as it is up to each to decide. More stupid politics by Dell, but what else is new? That's why they're laying off employees, losing marketshare, dropping revenue, etc.

Dell introduces new Inspiron laptops for CES 2013 - Direct2Dell - Direct2Dell - Dell Community

 

Erf...No backlit keyboard. A shame, those slim new inspirons seem pretty cool.

In france, the 8730M only comes on the new inspiron 17R, only 7670M for the new 15R.

Funny thing is that the new inspiron 17R is the first 17 inch notebook i've seen that comes with a 17W TDP cpu (core i5 3317U). Would love to see the power consumption onf this one.

 

This Graphic card is not at all SLOW...
m running battlefield 3 on high...crysis 3 on medium..and all other games on high settings