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Had a brief conversation via twitter: https://twitter.com/aoc_monitors/status/524932458861838336
Seems like it might turn up in certain countries before jan
According to SweC the event is, amongst other things, for the 900 launch and that it will be on retail shelfs at the same time.
- Translated: On the same day, the first performance-oriented graphics cards from the new generation of Maxwell will finds it's way to store shelves.
Source
AOC now state "Available in October" instead of August, th o Swedish retailers have a preliminary date - 17th of Sept
http://www.aoc-europe.com/no_cache/en/monitors.html?showUid=362
Hopefully the timing will go nice together with the 800series GPU release
The AOC is now listed in Sweden for ~8k, so €860. Thou only one store has it listed so price should come down hopefully..
With 22nd of August as a preliminary date
Hmm this got me a bit worried.. Got a 7970 and waiting with the finger on the trigger for the AOC but now I might have to hold off on that until nVidia release their 800 series(oct/nov..such a wait..:()
I would guess that the ultimate countdown is for a new laptop and that the tweet is for the shield. A swedish site(sweclockers) confirmed that the shield would come in August tho that might mean in stock in August and not released.
Edit: Same site later also confirmed that more info on the...