Preliminary Info on NEW Compal IFL90 / IFL91 / IFT01 / IFT00

Yes, that's what they wrote.

 

So.. does anyone actually know whether or not the IFT00 is coming to the North American continent?

 

Will the IFT00 come with a 8600 or 8400? or no one knows yet.

 

yeah, and, more precisely, 8600GT or GS?

 

Donald from powernotebooks said about a week ago that Compal currently has no plans on bringing the 00 to the US, although he did say that it didnt mean they never would.

 

The lower res comes with a 6cell battery, which is flush, and the higher res lcd comes with a 9 cell that sticks out of the back 3/4". The 6 cell lasts about 2-2.5hours, and the 9 cell about 3.5 hours.

 

Will there be IFL90 barebone available?

 

Yes there will be a barebones, we will have it available very soon on our website

 

which will be cheaper to buy with the same specs?
Probably the pre-built one that you build right?

 

It is better to buy the fully built machine from us as it is fully tested and ready to use right out of the box. Plus the warranty on all of the is through one place

 

Anyone have a clue as to how hard adding the Robson memory chip will be? I'm starting to think it might be a good investment, but don't want to mess with my order, lest I lose my place in the queue.

 

Why don't you call your dealer and see if it would change you place in line?

 

> Why don't you call your dealer and see if it would change you place in line?

Because I'm an idiot! Did as you suggested, and Ron at PN already made the change to my order.

 

Ron called me a minute ago, and let me know I moved up 1 step in the queue



Kidding of course!

 

Hey! Since it was my suggestion maybe Ron should have given me your spot!

 

this is by no means confirmation, but i gave a call to bizcom and to micro express and this is what i got:

bizcom
the guy there said that the info they got was that the gfx card in the ifl90 has a code name of nb8p-gs, but he said that they were told this is actually a 8600m-gt. this may be why they had emailed the previous poster that the ifl90 comes with a gs version.

micro express
i called them, they said that they were about 99% sure that the ifl90 (which they said they didn't have in stock yet) would come with a 8600m-gt with 512mb vram

of course, none of the companies above have actually gotten the final production models as far as i know, so dont take this as meaning 100% confirmation, but at least this means that there is a very high likelihood that we will see a gt in the ifl90.

 

Yeah I googled for nb8p-gs and found one French site that was a bit terse but seems to confirm that the 8600M GT has a code name of NB8P-GS. (Way to go nVidia! Talk about confusing code names!)

 

They just do it to confuse nosy speculators like you

 

Oh yeah you think that's confusing?? Nvidia's classes of their new GPU models go as such:

G84 models: GeForce 8600M GT, 8800M GS, Quadro FX 1600M
G86 models: GeForce 8600M GS, 8400M GT, 8400M GS, 8400M G, Quadro NVS 140M, 130M, 135M, Quadro FX 360M

Also I found some websites to indicate that the NB8M-*whatever* belongs to the G86 class which means the IFT00 will not have an 8600M GT (as per existing european model specs).

 

Is there any reseller selling the IFL90 in Canada?

 

According to the FAQ

Milestone PC (various locations)
bizcom (Ontario)

 

I was wondering about just the IFL90. Those two resellers don't have that.

 

I don't know about Milestone, but I have to believe bizcom will be selling the IFL90 since they are a subsidiary of Compal. It probably isn't up yet simply because they didn't want to offer pre-orders. Maybe give them a call to find out for sure or check the site again once the notebooks reach North America.

 

If it helps we are not located in Canada but ship there regularly. We cant save you on Duties as a Canadian Company could though

Edit: Bizcom doesn't sell to end users, they mostly sell to distributors.

 

How much would the duties add to say a notebook configured to about $1800 CAD?

 

IFL90 will be avaible very soon (in few days) in France by www.surcouf.com ... SWEET :]

 

Hey Justin, the driver disk will for sure include WinXP drivers right?

 

All of the drivers are available on the Bizcom site:

http://www.bizcom-us.com/support/

 

In Poland Compal FL90 is already available from today (06.06.2007).

http://pececik.pl/index.php?products=product&prod_id=1101

http://bluemobility.pl/product_info.php/products_id/1749

http://bluemobility.pl/product_info.php/products_id/1748

As you can see the price is from about 1200 USD to 1500 USD.

 

Another country that only gets the low res screen

I am getting worried that I wont be able to get the high res screen in Germany.

 

We have been told the driver CD will include all drivers. As Donsell stated they are also available on the Bizcom website.

Duties on average are 15-20% of the purchase price of the machine. To get the most accurate rate I would recommend contacting a customs broker for your province and they can confirm the duties that will be due upon arrival.

 

Site admin of karen.pl - notebook reseller in Poland says that they will have several dozen WSXGA+ Compals FL90 exclusively in the whole country. So it seems that buying hires compal will be extremely difficult task.

 

Any news yet about the graphics card. It is almost mid June.
Tim

 

When ifl90's with 8600GT 512 ram will be released?

 

Well the IFL90 is supposed to be released mid June, but we are still waiting to hear what graphics card it will have.
Tim

 

The IFL90 is supposed to be released right around Mid June. Sorry there is not any updates on the Graphics Card yet. We are aggressively working to get the confirmed specs on this model ASAP.

You all will be the first to know as soon as we get the information.

 

will 8600gt's be avilable only with hi-res screens or with normal ones too?

 

Hepl me Help me I want to order mine right now!!!!
Lack of $$$$ doesn't help
Lynn

 

I am extremely happy to announce that in Poland WSXGA+ Compal FL90 is available

http://karen.pl/KatItem.asp?id=18&KatItemCId=4708

Here Compal is sold under California Access brand name.

 

What you have in Poland is Glossy, correct? Does the Poland version have the "GT"?

 

Can you possibly call them, if you are in Poland, and ask them what speed the GDDR is clocked at (shout out to Donald for making sure I was precise about referencing clock speeds and not GDDR2 v GDDR3).

Petrov.

 

Will the BIOS on the IFL90 boot from a USB device?

Also, I asked in a different thread if it was going to have a Trusted Platform Module, but it sounded like won't since it isn't a "Business Class" machine. Can somone confirm this?

 

15.4" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) MATT

NVIDIA® Geforce 8600M GT 512MB VRAM GDDR3

 

I got reply saying that memory clock is 700Mhz is that correct?

 

I have seen a specific date of June 24th, but that may have been at your site Justin, so I don't know...

Also, does the IFL90 really have an HD-DVD drive?

 

That would be the first 8600 GT with 512MB GDDR3 @ 700mhz memory clock that I've heard of - anyone else agree/disagree? Good stuff!

Petrov.

 

Still no news of IFT00 coming to the States?

I guess I'm going to start looking at other 14" notebooks then.

 

asus are good for you. 14" ones are cool.

 

Strangely enough, when I emailed the sales department of MicroExpress computers regarding the video card of the IFL90, they stated that both their WXGA and WXGA+ versions would have the 8600 GT.

Am I missing something?

 

You probably aren't, but MicroExpress may well be.