W541 is up on the Australian site...

Seems like the only new things are the trackpad buttons and the processors are slightly better.
http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/

*I know I misspelled Australia. Can't change it.

 

WTF is a W541? Did they mean W550?

 

@FinancialWar,
there is no W550, yet, because there are no Broadwell Quad-Core CPUs yet. This is why they have released the W541 as an update to the W540 - it is essentially the W540 with TrackPoint buttons and the new touchpad^^

 

W541 is a lame move, imho, better would've been an W540 + trackpoint buttons option... this way you could take care of those that already bought W540.
Half-* solution...

 

W541 really is the W540 with buttons, nothing else changed, besides the name change...

It seems possible to fit the new TrackPad into the older models. See this example: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPa...Clickpad-with-new-TrackPad/m-p/1931234#M34214

W540 and W541 share a common BIOS, and also a common UltraNav driver: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/pro...ries-laptops/thinkpad-w541/downloads/DS034647 So shouldn´t be a problem to retrofit the new trackpad into the W540.

 

Lol, what? It took Lenovo more than one year to come up with the same laptop that basically just unscrew the screw up they did to the previous generation?

Facepalm*