Intel's Santa Rosa platform officially dubbed Centrino Pro
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 20th 2006 2:45PM
posted Oct 20th 2006 2:45PM
While the Mac faithful are still twiddling their thumbs waiting for Apple to finally bump those sexy MacBook Pros to Merom status, Intel's not wasting any time officially dubbing its next generation notebook platform. The company unveiled the Santa Rosa chipset, complete with integrated HSDPA, at this year's Intel Developer's Forum, but we've now learned that it will not only be built "around the 64-bit dual-core Merom" processor, but it'll carry a "Centrino Pro" nametag to boot. Although specific speeds weren't announced, the chip giant did say that next year's Core 2 Duo lineup would include "T7300, T7500 and T7700 models," which boast an "800MHz front side bus and 4MB L2 cache," while the low-end T7100 gets it on-die cache halved. Simultaneously, Intel's "GM965/PM965 chipsets and 82566MM Gigabit Network/Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN network chips" will be unveiled to complete the Centrino Pro trifecta. Intel's planning on having these expeditious goodies ready by "Q2 2007," and the $300 million its throwing down for "promotion purposes" should keep us all very informed on its progress.[Via Laptoping]
Now this sounds like a leap from the current duo
i think i will wait till q2 to get my macbook pro on.
At this pace, I don't think AMD has any hopes of competing with Intel in portable world anymore...
RIP AMD.
They said the same thing about Intel on the desktop. All it takes is one new release.
Integrated HSDPA? I bet Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile aren't going to be happy about this. Think about it, everyone who buys a Centrino Pro computer is getting a device that works on Cingular's network, and Cingular's network only. Verizon's going to have a really hard time selling laptop EVDO adapters if Cingular gets widespread HSDPA coverage rolled out in a hurry.
Well T-Mobile is rolling out there HSDPA as we speak, so I'm sure they won't mind...
Sounds nice. Intel is really becoming my favorite over AMD these days, and I hope they keep on improving.
As for Macs.. the #6 reason you should love a Mac from apple.com: "The latest Intel chips."
Have fun waiting for Merom, Mac addicts :P
True that William Brand! HAHAHA @ Apple! Always two steps behind... The resident Engadget Apple fanboys can suck on that; with their outdated shitty computers! I love that MACs are Intel now because the even playing field is showing that they're simply not keeping up with the competition. Well done to Intel; they seem so on point recently and I'm loving my Duo2 at the moment.
*now Apple fanboys; if you could please point your mighty mouse up at the top right of this post, and click the red (-) symbol, I'd appreciate it. HAHAHAHAHHAH
And it runs on a different frequency than Cingular's HSDPA. Since Cingular has the head start it's probably a safe bet this will be Cingular HSDPA and not T-Mobile HSDPA.
so, just a clock and fsb bump from core 2 duo?
I'd be willing to bet that this is a baseband implementation, the RF is seperate; that would allow this to work with anyone's HSDPA network.
If Verizon is really concerned, I'm sure they'll work with Intel to get an EVDO version out.
However, this makes sense, since Cingular seems to have fewer qualms with users using their data network for real data (cell phones as wireless modems, for instance) whereas Verizon throws a hissy-fit and tries to charge extra for that kind of thing.
Yeah, Apple hasn't gone to merom in it's laptops. So what. Your getting marginal speed gains. The real merom goodness isn't coming till these santa rosa boards are out. Merom is currently bottlenecked by the old fsb speed, which will be fixed with santa rosa. Oh and true 64 bit. How much you want to bet that Apple is first out out of the gate with Centrino Pro? Especially considering 10.4 will be shipping by then. And hmm, Vista might be on SP1... if they actually release it :P
As for Apple being 2 steps behind, please put down the pipe. Apple was the early to ship with Yonah and early to ship with woodcrest. And the iMac has the merom.
Yah and it shows. My 2.Ghz MBP is a pile of shit. I've taken it in 4 times because the damn thing keeps waking up in my bag, overheating, and then shutting off. 4 times and they haven't been able to fix it. Now the damn thing won't go to sleep without me running a magnet along its right side to trigger the magnet sleep thing. The MBP is a POS.
YEA YEA Rip... whatever: zzZZZZZZZZZZZZZ; you need put that needle down. Apple = shit slow behind the times blah blah. They should go back to their shitty 'power pc' days and keep pretending that high horse is real.
AHHAHAHAH
What's with the logo in this post? I thought that was for the Sonoma platform.