The STRONGEST W520 model available ?

If one would want the absolute best performing, strongest W520 model what would that be ?

I found the W520 4276-23U model and would like to know if there's anything stronger? Or is that the best performing flagship Thinkpad until now?

For that matter, if someone has some sort of insider's information, does anyone know if a new W520 model is expected?

In that case I'd rather wait a bit, that is if there's any word of a stronger model coming up say in the next 3 months.

 

Dont think you should expect new models until Intels Ivy Bridge is out and thats not until 2012, only thing about hte model you picked is that it do not have Raid (So you can have 2 SSDs) but in my mind raid of SSDs are a waste of money unless you really need those datatransfer speeds (Which very very few do)

 

In addition to raid, it doesn't have the top end wireless lan card, a WWAN card, nor SSD (though I'd opt to get WWAN/SSD on your own anyways).

I'd also opt for a model with less memory and upgrade on your own.

 

Thanks, already have an SSD, and not interested in WWAN. Just talking about performance, if budget is not an issue.

 

Do a custom configuration, it is cheaper anyways.

 

Something that is dreadfully underatttended to here is the speed of the cpu which equates to CPU power. You want the fastest CPU possible with a minimum of 8 GB of memory.

Renee

 

On what basis are you making these ridiculous claims? You like to state a lot of things without any basis to back them up. Look at the "what to buy" thread and check out what most people use their laptop for... most users here will never require more than the lowest end CPU currently available and similarly more than 4GB. Honestly, a slight increase in speed of a CPU and cache will not be noticeable since majority of the time the CPU is downclocked to conserve power. If you use programs that are memory and processor intensive, it should be known by that user and stated.

 

What you say is true....for most users. My claims are far from ridiculous. In don't have to look at the what you buy thread.

As I say, I do not care what most users run.

Renee

 

To you and a few others, it might not be true, but for most people it isn't. You've even admitted to that. But if you don't care what others need, then how can you give a recommendation on what people need?

 

I dom't just make willy nilly comments. They are well aimed and based on decades of engineering experience.

"To you and a few others, it might not be true,"

I have admitted to no such thing. Now you are making things up now.

Renee

 

Sure getting the highest end parts may give you a lot of processing power, but for the W520 it comes at a premium of something around $800, which is enough to buy a T420 or T520, or another laptop when the lineup gets refreshed which will have more processing power than your top end last gen laptop anyways.

 

Well in your last statement, you implied that you're not an ordinary user when you said "for most users this is true". Either way, you have stated that you don't care what others need, so again, why are you even here suggesting things then? If you're going to contribute to helping the OP, then at least have some logical reasoning to back up why you believe he/she should get what you suggest.