Intel (Re)Introduces Santa Rosa

While many manufacturers have already announced the availability of their new notebooks based on Santa Rosa with some models already available, Intel officially announced its availability yesterday. Of course, there was nothing new, and all features were already known and reported in our previous news about Santa Rosa, without mentioning the recent IDF in Beijing.
To summarize one more time the key features of Santa Rosa:
- The FSB increases from 667 to 800 MHz
- Core 2 Duo clockspeed on FSB 800MHz tops at 2.4GHz
- The graphic chipset GMA 950 introduced with Napa/Napa Refresh is replaced with the more powerful GM X3100
- Wi-Fi 802.11n integrated in Intel chipset.
- Intel Turbo memory, aka Robson technology, an optional flash memory unit to boost repetitive tasks and system booting.
- Improved power consumption management, not only for the CPU, but also for the GM X3100 when being only used with 2D application, or for the Ethernet port able to switch between 1000Mbps and 100Mbps to save couple of watts.
Santa Rosa is not a revolution, but rather the final evolution to a mature platform initiated with the introduction of Napa. For more radical changes, one will have to wait for the end of 2007.
Final notes to Cupertino: Apple is probably the last manufacturer not having announced its Santa Rosa-based notebook offer... we hope they will be announced and available at the WWDC at the latest.