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Santa Rosa

post #1 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:19am
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what the hell is Santa Rosa??
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post #2 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:21am
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post #3 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:22am
It's also a town in California
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post #4 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:23am
It is the name of the next-gen Intel platform that will run at 800mhz FSB....
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post #5 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:25am
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so you mean its better than the intel dual core 2 chips?
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post #6 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:26am
Santa Rosa is the platform (chipset) that will support the Core 2 Duo's.....
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post #7 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:27am
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post #8 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:27am
Quote:
Originally Posted by FlashSVT

exactly.. thats where I found that image anyways
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post #9 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:28am
Santa Rosa isn't a CPU, it's the successor to the current Napa platform, and will have quite a few nice new technologies that are *supposed* to make computing easier and faster.

...whether this will *happen* remains to be seen. The shit part is Santa Rosa will introduce a new socket to the Merom line. So far Intel's had three sockets for their Centrinos - Socket M, Socket M (Napa), and soon, with Santa Rosa, Socket P. There won't be any backwards compatibility.
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post #10 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:30am
667 to 800 isn't that big of a boost, I hope the 1066 boards aren't too far off. The desktop Core 2 Duos are beastly.
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post #11 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:31am
^^

I know it. I wish they would stop BS'ing and just jump to the 1066 FSB so I can upgrade
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post #12 of 19
8/10/06 at 2:24am
there isnt any money in giving it all now. By making you wait with little upgrades here and there, they maximize their return. Why make a billion off a cpu technology when you can milk it little by little and make 10 billion.
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post #13 of 19
8/10/06 at 3:09am
^^

Agreed, but it still sucks
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post #14 of 19
8/10/06 at 3:53am
Pray for us.
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post #15 of 19
8/10/06 at 7:32am
I'm not familiar with how often Dell changes their laptop models.

The Santa Rosa won't be out till Q2 of next year, correct?

So the wait for a 1066 based board might be at least one year from now?
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post #16 of 19
8/10/06 at 11:29am
This is what I'm waiting for:

- Vista
- DirectX 10
- Nvidia go 8xxx series
- SLI in Dell notebook (more preferably in 17")
- affordable 4GB ram
- Core 2 duo Extreme with Santa Rosa chipset
- mobile Ageia PPU
- Dell to finally change notebook models (I'm really over the silver palm rests that wear out so easily)
- Customizable appearance and/or colors
- No more screen leakage
- Blu ray or HD-DVD drives
- High performance RAID or 10k rpm hard drives
- N (not draft-N) wireless
- options for integrated Sound Blaster HD cards
- A f%@#ing 30% or 35% off coupon!
- Crysis, Battlefield 2142, Quake Wars:ET, UT2007
- Enough money to afford all this

I think that covers it
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post #17 of 19
8/10/06 at 11:47am
My wishlist:

- OSX 11
- ATI X2xxx (DX10)
- 4GB ram
- dual 200GB perpindicular 5400 1.8" HD's
- Core 2 Duo ULV
- 12.1" Widescreen w/ HD support
- Slot HD DVD burner
- Wireless N, Bluetooth, EVDO, DVB, Tuner built in
- Integrated XFi surround and outputs
- DVI/HDMI output
- 10 hour battery

With the rate of reduction of chips and wattage, this SHOULD be possible at some point...



[edit: the best would be a combo AMD/ATI 4x4 chip: 2 64 bit CPU cores and 2 X2xxx GPU cores ]
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post #18 of 19
8/10/06 at 11:58am
You guys might have a long wait!
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post #19 of 19
8/10/06 at 12:00pm
I give it 3-5 years...

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