GeForce 8600 GTS: Misprint, Hoax, Marketing Ploy, or Real Deal

In my lovely search for laptops, I came across the "new" 15 inch IdeaPads actually have discrete graphic cards as an option.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/...-category-id=ED26332647C64CF9940904A568CE7DC8

This is all well and good. I was expecting a 9500GS under the hood as this is a new notebook and perhaps Motvinia. Well It's still a Santa Rosa platform judging by the non-Penryn CPU choices and it's something from 8600 line. This is where the story gets confusing. Lenovo lists the card as a NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GTS 256MB. Thats right a GTS What the hell? None of the benchmark pages, Google searches, forum searches turned up anything. It would seem that this card offeres extra performance than the GT as that's how Nvidia's convoluted naming scheme tends to work. But if they were comming up with new cards, why wouldn't they put it in the 9-series. It would be a new card in much the same way as the die shrunk 9500GS (ne` 8600GT).

So is this a real new card (and what kind of performance is there)? Did Lenovo have a misprint? Did someone hack Lenovo's site to play a particuarly stupid prank? Or has Nvidia just gone ahead and labeled the DDR3 cards differently than the DDR2 cards?

BTW the 17 inchers get a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB standard, which makes absolutely no sense as the 3600 supposedly outperforms it. Unless Lenovo is trying to keep costs down.

 

its a misprint

 

m8,use search

 

THere is no GTS.

Btw, the HD 2600XT>HD 3650m

 

prolly misprint. there's 8600gs, gt and i believe there's a gt X but i think nobody's come out with one.

 

For laptops the 2 variants are the 8600m GS and the 8600m GT. Ask in the desktop forum or look up the graphics card sticky for desktop equivalents.

 

Thanks for the info. It makes sense. Especially with...

We have a new development. Lenovo has taken the page down for maitenence. I imagine the coders are fixing it right now. I did grab a screen cap of the order page before it went down if anyone wants to see it. I'm thinking the 8600 GT will be the corrected option.

Didnt know the 2600 XT was more powerful than the 3600 but then again I didnt bother to look it up. Probably should have guessed anyway as the 3600 is a bit more powerful than the 8600 GT, which the 2600XT beats by a much larger margin. I'm not so good with math- That's why I'm an English major

 

Well this is odd. Lenovo still lists the graphics card as the mythical GTS. Did they not notice a misprint?

 

Why don't you call/email Lenovo and ask them?