7870/7850m Availability

Does anyone have the lowdown on some upcoming models that will use 7870/7850? Seeing as how the 7970m is coming out in the Sager and Alienware top tier gaming models, do you think we'll see these in standard form factor 15"?

The low wattage on them is encouraging, but the current market seems polarized (either no/weak gpu or M18x monster with 300w power supply). I wish the m14x had more competition..

 

The refreshed envy17 will get one, but I dont know when they release the refreshed model...

 

Envy 15 = awesome, Envy 17= little too big for what I'm looking for.

 

I suspect besides Trinity notebooks with hybrid Crossfire you won't see many of these. Nvidia won most designs for Ivy Bridge (just like with Sandy) it seems. A shame if you ask me since last year the manufacturers were probably after Optimus, but now AMD has Enduro to compete with it (though it's only natural they'd be wary of bugs of all sort since it's a new technology & given Optimus' own track record of various issues, maybe few manufacturers are willing to go out on a limb)

 

amd had bacon last year...

 

What is these "design wins" both companies are bragging so much about? Do it really matter who won most?

 

nope, not all, nothing, nada, nein,

 

Thats what I thought.

 

Yep. They had automatically switching graphics for a while now, I think the Enduro announcement was just to give their solution a cooler sounding name.

 

yeah bacon was quite lame, what would think first, Sir Bacon or pork?

 

bacon sounds pretty cool in my book.

I couldnt take the wait any longer so I (pre)ordered a p150em with 7970. I'm hoping size/weight/noise won't get in the way too much.

 

enduro is the new bacon, as r3d said.

 

Yep. That's the main reason why notebooks with nvidia discrete GPUs are likely to flood the market and AMD equipped notebooks will be scarce.

But another explanation might be that AMD want to keep most of their chips in Trinity notebooks to give them an edge against intel, idk.

It's funny because it's as if Nvidia knew they'd have trouble supplying enough Kepler chips to cover all market segments and so at some point decided to focus their efforts on the GK 107 (which was the first Kepler chip rumoured to tape-out iirc), probably to ensure they'd win many designs.

So imho either nvidia managed to pull the rug from under AMD's feet, cut its prices, or AMD had trouble convincing manufacturers about the reliability of their technology, or they want to keep most AMD discrete mobile GPUs for Trinity... pick your favorite one.