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Intel Sonoma UK Launch Party
Benny writes "Intel held it's UK Sonoma lauch party last night and TrustedReviews have some pictures up of the machines on display including new models from HP, Dell, Samsung, Sony and Asus to mention a few."
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Sonoma is based on the 915 chipset (Alviso/ICH6). The biggest difference is, of course, PCI Express. There is support for a x16 PCI Express graphics on Alviso, and support for a couple of x1 PCI Express devices on the ICH. This is a major architectural overhaul that more than doubles the bandwidth between the MCH and the ICH. New to Sonoma, the chipset also includes support for:
- 533MHz FSB
- SATA
- DDR2 memory
- Next generation integrated graphics that doesn't suck
- Hi-def audio (Azalia)
- New power management features
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> My Standard PowerBook is not only thin AND light
and also cost way more than ~$1000
> prolly faster than these laptops
Dream on. These chips run with the G5 (and actually fit in a light form factor).
"Intel held it's UK..."
How many times? It's means it is, its is possessive. Unless you meant "Intel held it is UK...", you've used the wrong one.
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Err, Macs run Linux
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- Next generation integrated graphics that doesn't suck
I think it's also important to note that the DDR2 533/400-MHz memory controller is dual-channel and the integrated graphics shares memory with the CPU.
Since the CPU has the same bandwidth as a single channel of DDR2 533, the benefits of dual-channel memory are really seen when combined with integrated graphics. Also, sharing memory using PCI Express is probably a huge improvement over AGP 8x.
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