Thursday, May 10, 2007

Intel 'Santa Rosa' Centrino laptops hit shelves

"The new version adds longer battery life and faster computing to the technology bundle of a processor, chip set and wireless card. Intel will keep the name Centrino Duo for the consumer version, although changes include a faster Core 2 Duo processor, support for the draft version of 802.11n wireless networking and a Turbo Memory feature that supplements the standard hard drive with NAND flash for faster booting." Read here



Of course we love the fact that it is saving the power and extending the usage up to 9 odd hours. But still we are waiting for the Quad Core processors with FSB 1100+.

Intel said earlier this year that it was to launch Penryn or was it just rumours? Later of course they have a new name for it, "Quad Core" with a performance increase of about 40% to the existing "Intel Core 2 Duo".

Lets wait some more to find out what else they have up their sleeve.

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