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santa rosa question.
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i undersand its 64 bit and 800 mhz front side.
what will a 133 mhz boost to the front side do for me? and could someone explain this whole wireless thing w/ santa rosa. Thanks 
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It will make 20% of the computer 18% faster. In other words, very little.
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Originally Posted by MattJeff
i undersand its 64 bit and 800 mhz front side.
what will a 133 mhz boost to the front side do for me? and could someone explain this whole wireless thing w/ santa rosa. Thanks
Google "santa rosa chipset" then peruse the various relevant links.
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Originally Posted by MattJeff 
i undersand its 64 bit and 800 mhz front side. what will a 133 mhz boost to the front side do for me?
The Santa Rosa chipset will have an 800 MHz FSB vs. Napa's 667 MHz FSB.
The reason people are excited about it is because on Napa there are several tests where Core 2 Duo (Merom) shows hardly any advantage when compared with Core Duo (Yonah). In addition, the desktop Core 2 (Conroe) performs a good deal better than Merom. One of the reasons for this is that Merom is FSB limited. Certain operation would be faster on merom if it were running on a faster FSB. Once Santa Rosa arrives this problem should become less severe.
It's more difficult to say what it will do for you and it depends very much on what you do. I have this little rule of thumb: If you wait a lot in front of your computer for tasks to finish because you're CPU limited, most every benefit is worth the money (CPU clock, FSB, etc.). OTOH if you normally don't really wait for tasks to finish (everyday use, web surfing, etc.), you will hardly notice anything from performance increases on the order of 15%.
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anyone on the wireless thing tho? i "googled" it(whoops i mean i looked on google) and its not too helpfull, nither is Wikipedia. Thanks
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As far as wireless goes, Santa Rosa supports all the wifi standards (802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11n), WiMAX (802.16e), and WWAN and HSPDA (both are high-speed cellular data).
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wireless directly works with the chip?
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Santa Rosa is a whole SET of chips, one of which is the integrated wireless chip.
Same as on the current Napa chipset - that comes with a wireless chip, as well.
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people are waiting for merom? now santa rosa promises a pro level computer.
support for every wireless radio, full 64 bit support, 800mhz front side bus (most likely support for more then 2 gbs) cellular radio support?
wow
why a merom? a .166mhz increase from current chip-semi 64 support and what else?
macworld jan will be somrthing else cant wait.
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