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Santa Rosa?

post #1 of 21
2/11/07 at 7:29pm
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Okay I keep hearing a bunch of stuff about "santa rosa" and I want to know what it is. Who is making it (any certain brand) ? Is it something you put in computers to update them or is it a computer themself? This might be a stupid question thread, but I couldn't care less about that.
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post #2 of 21
2/11/07 at 9:31pm
Just like I said in the thread right above this one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrin...orm_.282007.29

its the new chipset from intel that will get some bump in performance over merom
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post #3 of 21
2/11/07 at 10:46pm
Not worth worrying about. Be happy with the machine you have now. Get a new one in a couple of years or more. I am tired of the upgrade game with notebooks. How fast do they need to be?
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post #4 of 21
2/11/07 at 11:21pm
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Okay thank you guys
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post #5 of 21
2/11/07 at 11:23pm
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March 2007 is when it says its coming out is that true?!?!?!
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post #6 of 21
2/12/07 at 2:00pm
If I had your laptop, I could say the same too
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Originally Posted by LarryC
Not worth worrying about. Be happy with the machine you have now. Get a new one in a couple of years or more. I am tired of the upgrade game with notebooks. How fast do they need to be?
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post #7 of 21
2/14/07 at 5:21am
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Originally Posted by LarryC
Not worth worrying about. Be happy with the machine you have now. Get a new one in a couple of years or more. I am tired of the upgrade game with notebooks. How fast do they need to be?

Actually, I'm yet to see a laptop that offers all the features I want. If they release a 14" widescreen T61p I will probably not upgrade in some years.
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post #8 of 21
4/9/07 at 8:57pm
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Originally Posted by LarryC
Not worth worrying about. Be happy with the machine you have now. Get a new one in a couple of years or more. I am tired of the upgrade game with notebooks. How fast do they need to be?
I have yet to see one fast enough?
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post #9 of 21
4/9/07 at 10:22pm
DX10 gpu's in santa rosa or is it now centrino pro. what more would you want :P
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post #10 of 21
4/9/07 at 10:29pm
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Originally Posted by 7egend
I have yet to see one fast enough?
Get a monster desktop like I did recently. Quad core, SLI 8800GTX.
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post #11 of 21
4/11/07 at 2:46pm
fsb 667-800
only worthy change.

but also worthless... I can only see the power cost increases. performance almost the same
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post #12 of 21
4/15/07 at 6:37pm
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Originally Posted by dugusword
fsb 667-800 only worthy change. but also worthless... I can only see the power cost increases. performance almost the same
That's not the only good update, the built-in NAND flash memory (Robson) deems to be very helpful when loading applications and boot up times. If you ask me, if you're in the market for purchasing a laptop and you don't need one right away I'd advise that you just wait til the release of Santa Rosa.
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post #13 of 21
4/16/07 at 5:39am
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Originally Posted by dugusword
fsb 667-800 only worthy change. but also worthless... I can only see the power cost increases. performance almost the same
LOL, thats probably the most worthless of them all. - Better powersaving features - Dynamic FSB 400<->800 for powersaving - DX10 Crestile chipset: integrated X3000 DX10 GPU, or example Nvidia 86M/84M DX10 GPU - Wifi 802.11n 4xfaster ~200Mbit wireless - 512Mb/1024MB NAND Flash accelerator (powersaving 0.4W, 50% faster boot/access etc.) - BIOS->EFI
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post #14 of 21
4/16/07 at 7:51pm
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Originally Posted by jiopi
LOL, thats probably the most worthless of them all. - Better powersaving features - Dynamic FSB 400<->800 for powersaving - DX10 Crestile chipset: integrated X3000 DX10 GPU, or example Nvidia 86M/84M DX10 GPU - Wifi 802.11n 4xfaster ~200Mbit wireless - 512Mb/1024MB NAND Flash accelerator (powersaving 0.4W, 50% faster boot/access etc.) - BIOS->EFI
Thank you, that's what I was saying; if they just wanted to up the Front Side Bus I'm sure they could've just done a little bit of changing in the motherboard and the system BIOS.
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post #15 of 21
4/17/07 at 7:14am
Also forgot to say: Santa Rosa also sports Intel Dynamic Acceleration IDA which probably is most intriguing technology of them all.


"Dynamic Acceleration takes the model a step further by balancing the allocation of resource even more carefully. When a Santa Rosa platform is executing a single threaded application it will actually switch off one of the CPU cores, thus eliminating wasted cycles. But the innovation doesn’t stop there, once the second core is idle, the clock speed on the active core will be increased to improve performance. Intel has also been very careful not to affect the TDP envelope, so increasing the frequency on the active core will produce the same amount of heat as if both cores were running at the standard clock."
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post #16 of 21
4/17/07 at 7:06pm
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post #17 of 21
4/18/07 at 4:39am
I'n not sure I like this turning off second core. Aren't one of the benefit of the second core is the switching between applications, reducing probability of freezing and locking OS? And running something in background - like email checker, or disk defrag or antivirus. Not sure if squeezing another 20% out of CPU worth it. What I would really like is while overclocking one core, underclock another. That would be really interesting...
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post #18 of 21
4/18/07 at 4:48am
So when is Santa Rosa going to be released? Any time soon?
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post #19 of 21
4/18/07 at 7:08am
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Originally Posted by serg3d
I'n not sure I like this turning off second core. Aren't one of the benefit of the second core is the switching between applications, reducing probability of freezing and locking OS? And running something in background - like email checker, or disk defrag or antivirus. Not sure if squeezing another 20% out of CPU worth it. What I would really like is while overclocking one core, underclock another. That would be really interesting...
Yes, but I think it only does that when the second core isn't stressed.
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post #20 of 21
4/18/07 at 12:22pm
Some aplications do not run properly on a dual core, so being able to turn off a core is a good thing.
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