'Santa Rosa' Shipping from Intel Next Month (May)

[MacRumors]

Businessweek reports on Intel's upcoming mobile initiative, with a report confirming that the Intel "Santa Rosa" platform will be launching next month (May).

The Intel executive also noted that Intel's Santa Rosa platform will start shipping in notebooks from next month. The mobile platform will comprise an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the mobile Intel 965 Express chipset family, 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity and optional Intel Turbo memory that has been touted to improve application performance.

The Santa Rosa platform was previously detailed in February. It is essentially a mobile platform from Intel which incorporates the Core 2 Duo, 800Mhz front speed bus, improved graphics chipset and Intel's Robson flash-based caching technology.

This technology could correspond with reports of an Apple flash-based laptop have been ongoing for months. The most recent expectations have predicted them coming from Apple in "second half of 2007".

Our Buyer's Guide points to MacBook and MacBook Pros approaching the end of their product cycles, based on historical update timeframes.

 

[superleccy]

Come on. Superleccy wants a new MBP.

SL

 

[zwida]

Come on. Superleccy wants a new MBP.

SL

I'll second that. This is what I keep saying I've been waiting for before pulling the trigger on a new MBP.

 

[koalition]

cool

Great! Been waiting for ages!

 

[twoodcc]

good news indeed! looking forward to it

 

[BenRoethig]

I expect new Santa Rosa Macs somewhere between june and august. If only my iBook could have held on a bit longer.

 

[AliensAreFuzzy]

I want one. :drool:

 

[student_trap]

i reckon it'll be put in macs around the same time as leopard arrives

 

[KIRA]

I'm excited! I cant wait to get my very first mac (MBP)!

 

[puckhead193]

cool, seems like a good time to update before all the kiddies get new computers for college

 

[Eidorian]

I've updated the guide...

 

[xfusejc]

Here's to hoping it comes out during the summer.

 

[NewSc2]

Hm, how will Apple handle Santa Rosa with all the other emerging technologies -- Leopard, backlit LED displays, flash memory, etc.?

 

[flopticalcube]

Hm, how will Apple handle Santa Rosa with all the other emerging technologies -- Leopard, backlit LED displays, flash memory, etc.?

Easy. They will take people off the iPhone.

 

[aarond12]

Mac Mini?

I wonder if Apple is planning to use this technology in the Mac Mini. It's about due for an upgrade as well. My G4 Mac Mini has been waiting to be upgraded until Apple came out with something with a better graphics engine.

-Aaron-

 

[sikkinixx]

*feels the money in my pocket* my god its burning a hole in my jeans....

HURRY APPLE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ME! RELEASE NOW!

 

[DsurioN]

So maybe WWDC won't be as disappointing as I thought it would be....

 

[Rocketman]

I have been clicking around Intel's website to try to get some specifics on Santa Rosa.

It supports better integrated graphics which makes sense since Apple has been ramping the minimum requirements for apps to the point where even the most recent shipping MacBook does not meet the requirements for some of their own software.

My understanding it it also increases the addressable memory to be "compatible" with true 64 bit systems, a first for Apple in low end systems. My hope is this means an update from 3GB max to 8GB max in low end systems. Memory prices drop over time and a 3 year old mac should be able to address the CHEAP 8GB memory available to it in three years.

The integrated wireless features are good. One wonders just how much "unsupported" wimax is in Santa Rosa considering the wimax rollout for Intel in early 2008.

Now that processors are so fast, the whole benefit to Robson is not boot times, but rather in energy savings, and in wake/sleep hardware wear reduction.

Rocketman

 

[Bern]

According to someone in another forum Apple will lock out all existing Intel Macs from using Leopard so we'll all have to upgrade to the new chipset anyways

Realistically though, any new Macs that may incorporate Santa Rosa won't be around until later in the year (probably October when Leopard is released as someone already mentioned). With that in mind I'm not waiting. I really need my new MBP and Adobe CS3.

 

[johnee]

agreed. I have the money, if I don't buy a mbp after wwdc, I might just spend it on something else.

 

[zap2]

About time...lets see thoughs new MacBook, iMac, MacBook and Mac Minis!!

This is one huge faul of Apple's whole line using laptop chips...updates will either all come at the same time, or be update with chip other PC maker are already using!!

 

[bommai]

HW and SW development cycles overlap

Contrary to what many people are saying in these forums, Apple (and most other SW/HW companies), don't change a lot of software and hardware at the same time. So, there will be new hardware coming out that run Tiger. When Leopard comes out there will be no new hardware (at that time). Hardware will again be released at MWSF next January. It is a nightmare to deal with both new hardware and software at the sametime.

 

[benguin]

I hope they release sooner rather than later (obviously). I've been waiting a long time to upgrade from my 867mhz G4 12" PB. At this point though, there's no way I'm not waiting. I was really hoping to upgrade this spring though, not summer. :-/

 

[jwp333]

I'll take a Santa Rosa update in my new iMac or Mini, and you can hold the Leopard.

 

[landis]

wow, we all knew this was happening. really no new information.