Well I think i5 is better than i7 quad overall, and Dell still hasn't let up about the GT 435M. We can be certain GT 435M will be much, much hotter than HD 5730.

Radeon HD 6000s are being launched, so hopefully we will see the Mobile version of the successor of 5730/5830.

Now if there were SXPS 16 parts and touch panel built into XPS 15 body, that would be awesome.

I have waited >2 months already with no laptop, I miss having one all to myself

If it's a good product I will wait, I really preferred to buy at this time, around November, but others have very limited warranty I cannot trust (after what happened with my last few laptops I am really cautious now).

They have AMD fusion and other things coming out, but people give really bad comments about AMD CPUs.

I believe i5 is compatible with 2GB VRAM since other laptops are sold with those specs. It's just Dell being Dell. It will be hard for me to accept buying a hot Nvidia GPU, but buying it with i7? I will never repeat that mistake.

Bad news is Sandy Bridge products all have quite high TDPs. It's like Intel and Nvidia are competing, who can make the hottest product with the worst relative performance.