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With the release of Intel’s Santa Rosa platform last week, we saw a number of new notebooks be announced from the usual suspects like Sony and Dell. Conspicuously missing, however, was Apple. The company is known for operating on its own timetable, but many expected Apple to eventually make the switch to Intel’s newest platform.
Today, […]

In San Francisco today, Intel officially launched its Santa Rosa mobile chipset which touts, among other things, using flash memory to speed up computing tasks. Intel calls this ‘Robson Flash’ memory and to show off its speed, company representatives ran a technology demo which had the Robson-equipped notebooks running more than 100% faster than […]

Today, Intel has introduced its upgraded Centrino platform, formerly code-named Santa Rosa, along with several new mobile processors. In PC World tests of two systems equipped with the new Intel products–the $1309 HP Pavilion dv6500t and the $2270 Gateway E-475M–we found that the new platform offers users a good technological leg up, though it doesn’t […]

Asus is the latest to join the mix with five new Santa Rosa notebooks. The notebooks range from the 13.3″ W7S on the lighter side to the 17″ A7S on the heavyweight side. All feature NVIDIA GeForce Go 8000 Series mobile GPUs and Intel’s new Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN Draft-N network adapter.
The W7S sports Core […]

Fujitsu has lost no time and has released three new Santa Rosa-based notebook models for the Japanese market. The company launched two 15.4″ Santa Rosa notebooks: the FMV-BIBLO NX and FMV-BIBLO NF. The NX features an Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 1440×900 display and a Blu-ray burner. The lower-end NF […]