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• Asus announces the F8 Infusion laptop

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Asus, F8 Infusion, F8infusion, Santa Rosa, Santarosa

  to feature the ubiquitous Santa Rosa 965 chipset, a selection of Intel's Core 2 Duo processors (T770, T7500, T7300, T7100), and will sport 802.11a/g/n connectivity. Additionally, you can expect either an ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 or an NVIDIA GeForce8600M GS for graphics, up to 2GB of RAM, a SATA hard drive up to 160GB, plus a built-in

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• More-solid-than-usual-rumors: Next-Gen iMacs and More Coming Tuesday, New iPod Mid-September

  Published: August 5, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Apple, Imac, Mac Mini, Macbook, More Solid Than Usual Rumors, Santa Rosa, Top

  changes, will be getting Santa Rosa chips. • Mac mini: total form change, all brushed aluminum and 15% smaller. Base model will have a 120GB HDD. • The iMacs will be, as rumored, brushed aluminum. And as a bonus, "the new ipods will be rolling around mid-September." Well, the next-gen iPods are far away, but we only have to wait

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• UPDATED: RUMOR SMASHED!: Next-Gen iMacs and More Coming Tuesday, New iPod Mid-September

  Published: August 5, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Apple, Imac, Mac Mini, Macbook, Santa Rosa, Top, Updated Rumor Smashed

  changes, will be getting Santa Rosa chips. • Mac mini: total form change, all brushed aluminum and 15% smaller. Base model will have a 120GB HDD. • The iMacs will be, as rumored, brushed aluminum. And as a bonus, "the new ipods will be rolling around mid-September." Well, the next-gen iPods are far away, but we only have to wait

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• UPDATED: Next-Gen iMacs and More Coming Tuesday, New iPod Mid-September

  Published: August 5, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Apple, Corrections, Imac, Mac Mini, Macbook, Santa Rosa, Updated

  changes, will be getting Santa Rosa chips. • Mac mini: total form change, all brushed aluminum and 15% smaller. Base model will have a 120GB HDD. • The iMacs will be, as rumored, brushed aluminum. And as a bonus, "the new ipods will be rolling around mid-September." Well, the next-gen iPods are far away, but we only have to wait

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• Asus U3 laptop gets official

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:27 pm

  Tags: Asus, Leather, Piano Black, Pianoblack, Santa Rosa, Santarosa

  it looks pretty sweet. The Santa Rosa-based, 13.3-inch laptop still rocks a Core 2 Duo processor (in T7500, T7300, T7100, T5450, T5250, CM540), a Nvidia GeForce G8400M G External graphics chipset, up to 2.5GB of RAM, and a 160GB SATA hard drive. In the communications department, the U3 packs 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.0, but apparently the

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• Apple's 2.4GHz 24-inch aluminum iMac gets benchmarked

  Published: August 12, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Apple, Benchmark, Benchmarked, Benchmarks, Core 2 Duo, Core2duo, Imac, Mac, Santa Rosa, Santarosa

  Filed under: Desktops Although we certainly noticed that Apple's latest iMac felt snappy enough, the folks over at Primate Labs have cranked out a few numbers for the data freaks in the crowd to chew on. Granted, these benchmarks do not include the Core 2 Extreme iMac nor are they the most complete set of tests we've ever seen, but they do seem

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• Meet the New Macs, A Little Faster Than the Old Macs

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Benchmarks, Core Duo 2, Coreduo2, Imac, Mac Mini, Macmini, Santa Rosa, Santarosa

  as a switch to the faster Santa Rosa chipset. Yes, that all sounds great but what does it mean in terms of the new iMac's ability to crunch those numbers?Well, according to Primate Labs' tests on the new 24" iMac, as featured at Apple Insider, it doesn't help a great deal unless you're using one of those math-intensive apps like Photoshop or

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• Toshiba unveils Satellite U300 lineup

  Published: August 20, 2007, 7:49 pm

  Tags: Santa Rosa, Santarosa, Satellite Pro, Satellitepro, Toshiba, U300

  Filed under: Laptops On the heels of the U305 announcement, Toshiba has quietly upped a pair of U300 machines to its website. The Satellite U300 and Satellite Pro U300 don't differ too awfully much, but the two do sport differing color schemes and arrive with varying levels of RAM, hard drive space, and battery capacity. Regardless, both machines

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• Intel readying slew of 45nm Penryn mobile CPUs?

  Published: August 22, 2007, 5:10 pm

  Tags: 45nm, Cpu, Intel, Merom, Microprocessor, Mobile Cpu, Mobilecpu, Montevina, Penryn, Processor, Roadmap, Santa Rosa, Santarosa

  Filed under: LaptopsHot on the heels of Intel's mobile Core 2 Extreme X7900 comes word that the chip maker has eleven 45-nanometer CPUs in the backroom just waiting to take the laptop scene by storm. DigiTimes has it that Intel will indeed launch the five Penryns we heard about recently "in the first quarter of 2008," and also notes that Q2 holds

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• Dell intros 17-inch Precision M6300 laptop

  Published: September 4, 2007, 12:53 pm

  Tags: Business, Core 2 Duo, Core2duo, Dell, Enterprise, Laptop, Precision M6300, Precisionm6300, Santa Rosa, Santarosa

  of a laptop, the 17-inch, Santa Rosa-based behemoth known as the Precision M6300, feel free to get really excited. Very soon, all of you business boys and girls will be able to get your hands on the company's new enterprise-centric laptop (a follow up to the M90), that rocks a Core 2 Duo X7900 CPU (2.8GHz with an 800MHz FSB), Nvidia's Quadro

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• Epson intros Endeavor NJ5100Pro laptop

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:16 pm

  Tags: Endeavor, Epson, Laptop, Santa Rosa, Santarosa

  Filed under: Laptops Epson's Endeavor laptops may not turn many heads (save for the odd Hello Kitty invasion), but the company's latest at least packs some decent specs, as well as a range of configuration options. On the top end, the 15.4-inch NJ5100Pro packs a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo T7800 processor, along with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 or Mobility

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• Toshiba's Tecra M9 laptop to get HSDPA?

  Published: September 12, 2007, 12:39 pm

  Tags: Fcc, Hsdpa, Novatel, Santa Rosa, Santarosa, Tecra, Toshiba, W Cdma, Wcdma, Wwan

  Filed under: LaptopsGranted, nothing looks to be set in stone just yet, but if FCC documentation leads to results, Toshiba's Tecra M9 could be getting HSDPA. Apparently, the FCC has tested a version of the lappie with a WWAN module built right in, and more specifically, the test reports show that a module manufactured by Tyco Electronics is the

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• Sony debuts the VAIO CR20 and NR10 series laptops

  Published: September 13, 2007, 12:41 pm

  Tags: Cr20, Nr10, Santa Rosa, Santarosa, Sony, Vaio, Vgn Cr21z, Vgn Nr11z

  with the always-thrilling Santa Rosa chipset, 2GB of RAM, a 200GB hard drive, and an ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 (the CR20), or the Intel X3100 integrated graphics chip (NR10). The CR20 sports 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.0, plus an integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam, while the NR10 does plain-old 802.11a/b/g. Both new systems come in a variety of

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• HP's WWAN-equipped Pavilion dv2500t now official

  Published: September 13, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Broadbandaccess, Dv2500, Dv2500t, Geforce, Official, Pavilion, Santa Rosa, Santarosa, Shipping, Wwan

  Filed under: Laptops We've known for quite awhile that HP was conjuring up a dv2500 of some sort, but now the machine is ready to roll straight from the firm's webstore. Specs wise, you'll get a 14.1-inch WXGA BrightView display, your choice of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, between 1GB and 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS, 802.11a/b/g/n,

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• Intel announces "Santa Rosa Refresh," other future laptop plans

  Published: September 19, 2007, 5:52 pm

  Tags: Idf, Intel, Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa Refresh, Santarosa, Santarosarefresh

  of its forthcoming "Santa Rosa Refresh," which will be based on the company's upcoming 45nm Penryn mobile processor and is set to hit in January of next year. As with current Santa Rosa laptops, the updated platform will be based on Intel's 965 Express chipset, and will include all the usual networking and other options associated

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