Sound like a person’s name for me, Santa Rosa is a codename refering to 4th generation of Intel Centrino platform, or 2nd generation of Core 2 Duo. Good thing is that it supports IEEE 802.11 n :D but WiMAX is not yet available. Anyway, I don’t expect WiMAX service to be available so soon as well (at least in my country).

A new technology introduced in Santa Rosa is Dynamic Acceleration Technology, which basically to boost single threaded applications by overclocking (in real time, I think) one of the processors when another one is not in use.

One of the notebooks having Santa Rosa processor is Asus F3Sc. One of the Lowyat users is selling at RM4700 (~USD$1,355). Yum Yum. After benchmarking by PCNews, the 3DMarks 2006 score is 1720, which is similar to GF 6600/6800/7800GS and ATI X800.

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