M6900 - What specs are you hoping for?

I think the only complaints I've seen related to the M3800 keyboard are regarding the font choice.

 

I don’t consider Lenovo’s AccuType a chiclet at all. While there are reportedly differences between models, if I were to choose a laptop on keyboard alone, it would be Lenovo no doubt.
Whereas I truly hate Mac keyboards and any look-alikes; and the few keyboards on Inspirons I could try out in local stores? They felt absolutely horrible.

 

Chiclet to me—that’s a rectangular isolated flat-top with little to no guidance for fingers, shallow go, and little to no feedback.
After two-hour typing on a Mac keyboard, my tendons would hurt and I’d be generally miserable from the inconvenient labor. I can go 16 hours on the Precision keyboard if I must, however is it by far not the best keyboard in the world.
Obviously, one’s needs and preferences differ.

 

Mobile Xeons are out, curious to see if these machines will ship out with i7 chips as well.

Comparing the E3-1535m, i7-6920HQ (best currently released Skylake mobile chip) and my M4800's i7-4910MQ:
http://ark.intel.com/compare/89610,88972,78939

Obvious changes are the 14nm litho, the move to DDR4, the new 64GB memory ceiling & the new iGPU, couple other little things too.

The new chips dropped VGA output, so the new chassis will probably run DP/TB outs only with maybe a DVI out as well?

The Xeon supports ECC, the i7 doesn't. Still trying to figure out who's going to be releasing 16GB SODIMMs this month, ECC'ed SODIMMs are mysterious as hell.

 

I predict x2 mDP/Thunderbolt and a HDMI 2.0.

 

Speaking of HDMI 2.0 has does any know of any of the recent skylake notebooks shown at IFA included it in their specs? I don't Lenovo had mentioned it with their recent skylake workstations.

 

I know it's a shot in the dark but anyone have an idea when the new Precision line is going to be announced? I have a credit with Dell I'd like to convert into a new Precision, but the complete lack of announcement (versus Lenovo & HP's) has me concerned that the launch is delayed.

Since they didn't present anything at IFA except the new XPS15, what other big expo should I look forward to?

 

I've followed Precision launches for a few years and I've never seen them announced at some big event. They usually just make a post on their blog and a few other media outlets when they are ready.

That said, we have no hard information except for a few leaked pictures, one of which has "September 2015" listed for each model. Hang in there for a couple weeks yet.

 

That's the plan, but I basically have a second offer for a M6800 with a decent loadout, this one with a timer.

Push comes to shove a credit is probably the best option, I just don't want to take delivery of a replacement machine in November.

 

Both US and Canadian SMB sales gave me an end of October ETA on a release announcement. The US rep gave me a story about throttling issues with the chips where apparently they can't bring them over a very low clock speed.

I'm assuming this is a very creative way of declining to answer when the actual release dates are, otherwise lmao.