Thanks for sharing the inside scoop, Kris ! You’d
think I know more about these things since I also work at Intel. I research
internal end user experience and such, and don’t get involved with the
silicon. So please correct me if I’m wrong.
Santa Rosa is a Centrino platform (ie. For laptops).
Besides enabling 4gb of ram, it will have other real benefits for users,
such as much faster boot up time and more energy efficient for better battery
performance, and other stuff like new wifi adapter, better graphics
capabilities etc etc. Not sure how easy it is to
tell if the computer you are considering has the SantaRosa components, but I
think it would be worth looking for.
-Qua
From: Krispen Hartung
[mailto:khartung@cableone.net]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 2:31 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Alternative to a laptop?
Here is my wife's response to the story, who happens to be Intel's
Americas Marketing Manager for this entire product line:
Kris'
Wife: "no - not
anymore."
"if you really want the details of the memory
addressing…read this document (page 55; section 4.4): ftp://download.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/31627303.pdf
Bottom
line is that the new 965 chipset (that is part of our new platform introduced
in May, code named “Santa Rosa”) supports 36-bit memory addressing
which allows the overlapping portions to be remapped. So there is no
artificial limitation to 3GB on the Intel 965 chipset.
The key is
you want a platform with the 965 vs. the 945 chipset. Another way to tell
is if the Core 2 Duo processor number has a 7 in the first digit (i.e. T7700
for the standard voltage 2.4GHz processor).
You’ll
note that you can configure the new MacBook Pros on the Apple site with either
2GB or 4 GB. And a quote from that very same section of the configurator says “All MacBook Pro models support up to 4
gigabytes of RAM.” "
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Thanks very much! Did you say you had 4gig on your Toshiba?
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