Honest question

do you think is worth it to wait 6-7 months to buy a Laptop with an Intel Haswell or just go for the Ivy Bridge now? 

The thing is I want a new Laptop but I want one with a pretty decent Integrated Card because Laptops with dedicated GPU's get sooo hot! I heard that the Intel HD 4000 with 16 pipelines is comparable to a GT 330M but that Haswells will have at the very least twice the GPU power ([font="sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px"]Intel HD 4600), higher CPU computing and use much less energy than an Ivy Bridge but don't know if this all is just marketing bullcrap or what.

Laptops will get better the longer you wait.
By the time the Haswells arrive, there'll be a newer thing on the horizon.

Question is if you really want/need it now. If you can manage with what you currently have, then there's no loss in waiting. If the marketing ends up being bull, you'll still be able to buy what you want at a much cheaper price.

Look in the past 5 years. has much really changed in the way of laptops? Look 5 years in the future, does it honestly look like we are going anywhere with silicon?

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Laptops will get better the longer you wait.
By the time the Haswells arrive, there'll be a newer thing on the horizon.

Question is if you really want/need it now. If you can manage with what you currently have, then there's no loss in waiting. If the marketing ends up being bull, you'll still be able to buy what you want at a much cheaper price.

This is the ongoing problem


I would worry more about
1) When do you need this laptop
2) How much money are you willing to spend
3) What do you plan to play

etc.

I would wait only if you feel whatever you were looking at now is not adequate for your purposes. There are certain crucial times to be careful, like buying a DX v.XX card shortly before the next wave of DirectX v.XY cards is a mistake I've made myself

Go for the new Haswell-based hardware if you don't require this until summer, I suppose.


But do keep in mind laptops with discrete GPUs will be your best performance option in any case. Mine doesn't get too hot (then again, it's got a lightweight AMD card, probably a fraction of the size of my desktop's)

AuToFiRE


Look in the past 5 years. has much really changed in the way of laptops? Look 5 years in the future, does it honestly look like we are going anywhere with silicon?

Yes, silicon lithography has dramatically improved in the last 5 years, where have you been?
 
To the OP, if you can score an ivy bridge with a GT 640M for cheap, I'd go for it. I doubt Haswell iGPU will be as good as that, but close.