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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
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