M14x R2 is out now

[Chainspell]

When I ordered through a sales rep he told me my order would post after thE 23rd, take it with a grain of salt.

[HSN21]

your theory is valid too but in that case people can just return their machines within the 21 day period or complain why they ship a last gen CPU after the launch of the new ones and get a CPU replacement I think DELL is aware of that

I can almost guarantee 99% that all the people ordering now are going to get new gen CPU's one way or the other

According to info around atm It seems only the Quad ivy bridge mobile is releasing first, The rest will follow much later on (2months~)

Can't know 100% for sure until end of this month

[truciet]

While the new card has better bandwidth the memory interface on the DDR5 650m is 128bit

How? Every review I saw said that any 650m running DDR3 is 128 bit and bottlenecked and any 650m running DDR5 is 192 bit?

Doesn't make any sense that the m14x will be 128 bit?

Can you clear that up? I'm sure I'm not alone in that since I thought it would be advantage for Dell against other manufacturers.

[bzh2]

How? Every review I saw said that any 650m running DDR3 is 128 bit and bottlenecked and any 650m running DDR5 is 192 bit?

Doesn't make any sense that the m14x will be 128 bit?

Can you clear that up? I'm sure I'm not alone in that since I thought it would be advantage for Dell against other manufacturers.

Even the 660m is 128 bit

[flybass]

best info on the card is here: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - Notebookcheck.net Tech

[Speedy Gonzalez]

According to info around atm It seems only the Quad ivy bridge mobile is releasing first, The rest will follow much later on (2months~)

Can't know 100% for sure until end of this month

yep that's right well at least that don't stop them from selling machines

[Caladdon]

So the GPU isnt as potent as it could be?

[HTWingNut]

GPU is 128-bit regardless of DDR3 or GDDR5. nVidia specs don't call out anything but 128-bit: GeForce GT 650M - GeForce

[Gearsguy]

Yeah, I think he just had the two reversed. The new 650M is 129-bit but since its DDR5 its still faster, but the 555M in the R1 was DDR3 192-bit. This gave it the advantage over all other GT 555M machines last year

[HSN21]

650M is true kepler, not only it's a very cold card (no overheating) but it's much much more powerful and for a reason

IVY bridge GPU got a huge boost, so nvidia had to make their 640-650m range more powerful or no company will buy them, the lower range is already obsolete since Intel GPU beats them

Here is Acer 640m (DDR3) with crapy CPU compared to m14x with 555m and Quad high end CPU 3d mark 2011


Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 Specs, Performance and Benchmarks

http://www.geforce.com/Active/en_US/...Comparison.png

Thew new M14x will perform about +60%~ minimum better overall it seems in according to the various benchmarks that shows the different between 555m vs 640m and 640m vs 650m