Intel Ivy Bridge Laptops on June 5, Lenovo Blows the Whistle

We've been talking about the impending arrival of Intel's Ivy Bridge central processing units and how there isn't, or wasn't, much of a way to find out when the laptops would start showing up. 

Sure, the first 22nm-based central processing units will be released on April 23, but it will take the mobile ones a while longer to show. 

There now seems to be an actual release date for notebooks, and it isn't because of some unofficial, questionable report. 

Instead, though the folks at Engadget were the first to spot it, Lenovo is the one responsible for the disclosure of the Ivy Bridge laptop availability date. 

What we mean by that is that this PDF includes a product roadmap where June 5 is specified. 

Chief River CPUs will lie at the heart of whatever notebooks appear on that date, but that doesn't mean that previous-generation models will suddenly disappear. 

In fact, Lenovo is going to continue selling mobile PCs powered by Huron River hardware until September, or thereabouts. 

Among the soon-to-be-updated notebooks, there are Lenovo's X220, X220T and X1, but there is a catch. 

The roadmap gives June 5 as the day when distributors can start acquiring Ivy Bridge Laptops, but that still leaves room for the possibility that consumers will only gain access to them in fall. 

Needless to say, if the new ThinkPads really do take another half a year to make it to the market, everyone else's laptops probably will as well. 

If Intel hadn't delayed the launch of its next-generation platform, chances are there would already be laptops running around. Alas. 

At least we know what to look forward to, and we mean more than increased CPU power. There is the GMA HD 4000 to consider after all. 

Based on previous reports, the integrated GPU will be quite a bit better than GMA 3000, even doing three things at once, and on three distinct displays to boot, all the while leaving CPU load at just 28%.

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