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Intel Spills Beans On Santa Rosa Notebook Platform

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bigger-better-deal dept.

Steve Kerrison writes "From the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing comes news of the successor to the Napa notebook platform. Santa Rosa, which will head up Intel's notebook technology line-up until 2H 2008, beefs up almost everything seen in Napa, from graphics to WiFi. 'Santa Rosa carries Robson Technology, now known as Intel Turbo Memory, the flash-based disc-caching system that speeds up loading times of frequently-used data. Santa Rosa is an obvious continuation of the Centrino series. There will also be another Santa Rosa Centrino variant — Pro — that covers the business features found on Intel's Q-series chipsets, namely vPro.' Intel's Core2 mobile processors remain a key part of the platform, as you'd expect, with 45nm 'Penryn' CPUs making their way into the Santa Rosa refresh in 2008."

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  1. I really feel for them. by JanusFury · · Score: 5, Funny

    This must be rough for Intel. Spilling beans on a computer is bad enough (have you ever TRIED getting beans out of electronics? It's a nightmare!), but spilling them on a development prototype? Somebody had to get fired for this debacle...

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    1. Re:I really feel for them. by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny

      Its actually part of the design - the thing will now fart to cool itself or to reduce load by getting the user to leave the keyboard. Their marketing motto - "You'll be blown away!"

      They were going to use jumping beans, but they realized the CPU already has a bunch of JMP instructions.

  2. Re:Too...many...codewords/brand names... by Foamy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple versions

    Santa Rosa eXtreme
    Robson eXtreme Technology
    Intel eXtreme Turbo Memory
    Q-series eXtreme
    vPro eXtreme
    Penryn Xtreme Core 2

  3. Santa Rosa surpasses Napa? Since when? by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can only imagine Intel is naming their products after northern CA cities. If that's the case, why the hell would they pick "Santa Rosa" as the step-up from "Napa." If anything the "Santa Rosa" platform should be a downgrade that comes with a mustache, gets your 14 year-old daughter pregnant, and emanates an overpowering manure smell when it gets hot.

    What's next? Lodi? Truckee? Daly City?

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  4. Re:Too...many...codewords/brand names... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chill, son. Nobody's saying anything bad about Apple. Settle down.

    It's really OK.

    Look at that, a shiny thing outside the window!

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  5. Coming from a Santa Rosa native by TheDarkener · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can say that this lineup will come, by default, with wine glass, extra-large chrome SUV rims, and Starbucks coffee holder.

    Oh, and it'll still whine about how little it has.

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  6. Or by CrimsonScythe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or, quite possibly, discovering that you replied to the wrong article the very moment you hit "Submit"...

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