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Re: Alternative to a laptop?



Good question! I'll have to defer to my wife on that one, about the macbook pro in question. You guys launched the chipset in May, so you they should have them in the current machines...but, I don't know how fast apple at getting new stuf into their pipeline.
 
"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). "
 
The thing is when I go to the macbook pro spec page, I can't find any of this, which sort of annoys me. On PC laptop pages, they call out the exact chip mode code, like T7700. 
 
 
All they say is: "2GHz or 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed"

What's up with that?
 
Kris
 
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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