Geforce 8700 Series?

[Arkaign]

Browsing around for release details on the Geforce Go 8800 device, I came across this link :

http://www.macnn.com/articles/...7/clevo.901c.notebook/

I can't vouch for the site as I've never been there before, but I was immediately struck by this :

"To be released in three weeks, the 8700M GT will be faster still than the 8600M GT introduced last week and is said be clocked high enough to double the last-generation GeForce Go 7600 GT's benchmark performance."

I thought, well .. that's interesting! Seeing as how the desktop 8600 is not really any faster (in many cases SLOWER!) than the 7600GT, it would be fantastic if Nvidia released a decent midrange card (that truly bridges the gap between the crap 8500/8600 and the awesome 8800s).

We need a DESKTOP 8700GT 😉 Or a refresh that brings us an affordable 8800GT/GS. Or both.

Thoughts?

 

[Arkaign]

Crap, checking around some other sites, it's apparently an overclocked 8600-level gpu 🙁 Damn, I was hoping for a possible midrange desktop solution heading our way (64 Stream processors, etc)