Santa Rosa

Drone Video Shows Postal Worker Still Delivering Mail in Neighborhood Ravaged by Wildfire

Wildfires have consumed over 170,000 acres in California since Sunday and thousands have taken refuge in shelters as their homes have burned. But for the United States Postal Service, the deliveries must go on. In a devastated neighborhood in Santa Rosa, a professional drone cinematographer caught this astonishing footage of one mail carrier’s surreal shift.…

‘Handcar Regatta’ Rail Race Is a Terrifying Steampunk Orgy

This week saw the commencement of the first annual Handcar Regatta race, in which over a dozen teams took to the rails in a ridiculous variety of human-powered steampunk machinery. The event wasn’t so much a race as it was a showcase of overwrought vehicle design, taking inspiration from everything from hamster wheels to animals…

Intel Santa Rosa Successor “Montevina” Knighted as “Centrino 2”

Four of Intel’s mobile chipsets—including its most recent and well-known, Santa Rosa—have been Centrino as far as your mom is concerned. To help us keep things a little straighter and make it obvious they’re actually updating stuff, Intel’s upcoming Penryn-oriented mobile chipset, Montevina, which’ll be pushing Santa Rosa aside, will be branded Centrino 2. Thanks,…

Intel Reveals New Mobile SSD, UMPC Concepts, the Skulltrail Gaming Platform and Penryn and Santa Rosa Updates

At Intel’s Pre-CES briefing today, execs discussed a new super-small solid state drive, WiMax-capable devices, and 45nm Penryn chips in everything from UMPCs to television sets to slender desktop all-in-ones from your favorite computer makers. Here’s the rundown: • In January, Intel will introduce what they claim is the smallest SSD in the industry. Officially…

Apple Takes Cheap Laptops to Santa Rosa

Guess those rumors were true about impending MacBook updates. Apple didn’t make a big deal about it, but right under everyone’s noses the company’s upgraded its popular MacBook laptops, finally goosing them up to the Santa Rosa architecture with GMA X3100 integrated video, giving those graphics a sprightly new lease on life. Santa Rosa gives…

Leopard Drivers Hint at Low- or Mid-Priced Santa Rosa MacBooks

While we know that Apple will eventually roll the Intel Santa Rosa chipset down through all of its laptops, there are surely a faithful few who feel their weekly pilgrimages to the Apple Store aren’t being properly appreciated by Lord Jobs. But new Leopard driver evidence nearly proves that Apple does have Santa Rosa MacBooks…

Slight MacBook Upgrade in November?

In the face of ultra-thin MacBook rumors, Think Secret claims that a modest processor bump for the MacBook will be the only hardware refresh for the rest of the year. Keep in mind, however, that Think Secret only says there won’t be any more hardware updates. They don’t say anything about new hardware announcements. Still,…

Intel plans to release a “Santa Rosa Refresh” in January which loads the 45nm Penryn chipset and “improved graphics capabilities”, the both of which allow for improved battery life and better Direct X 10 performance. The refresh laptops will also have 802.11n as well as Gigabit Ethernet networking. [Businesswire]

Lenovo Cranking Out Energy Star 4.0 Qualified Laptops Early

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star 4.0 revision hits July 20th, but Lenovo isn’t worried about making the cut. Three days before the revision, Lenovo plans to have the T61p, its first Energy Star 4.0 configured machine, out on shelves. The T61p won’t skimp on power to save energy, either. It has a suite of…

Santa Rosa MacBook Pro’s Have a 1.3MP Camera Inside

The crafty folks over at Mac Daddy World discovered that the new MacBook Pro’s have a different iSight inside. The new version, manufactured by Micron, outputs images to a much improved 1280×1024. Although iApps, like iChat, don’t yet take advantage of the increased resolution they’re still stuck in VGA. But an upgrade’s an upgrade, right?…

7 Takes on the Santa Rosa MacBook Pros

We’ve already shown you the new MacBook Pro benchmarks, which show respectable improvements over the old model, not just because of the new Santa Rosa chipset, but Nvidia’s new monster 8600M makes short work of 3D gaming. But what about the other features? How’s the battery life? What’s the deal on those LED screens? Is…

Sony Reveals Hidden Stash of VAIO CR Santa Rosa Notebooks

If Sony’s last crop of notebooks proved to be too rich for your blood, their new VAIO CR series might be what you’re looking for. For starters, they’re based on Intel’s Santa Rosa platform, so we’re talking the latest tech here. They have 14.1-inch (WXGA) screens, which means you won’t go blind trying to read…

Some Intel Santa Rosa Chips To Have Separate HD Decoder

Multitaskers rejoice, Intel is going to start using seperate decoders for HD DVD and Blu-ray playback in certain versions of their Santa Rosa chips. Now your pewny graphics card won’t have put up with your love of High-Def on its own. That means no more computer slow down when you’re watching Planet Earth on Blu-ray…

New Apple MacBook Pros with LED-Backlit Display

At last, here are the new Santa Rosa-based Apple MacBook Pros, loaded with faster Core 2 Duo processors. Same design but with LED-backlit LCD screens, increased processor speeds, more memory and zoomtastic NVIDIA 8600M GT graphics at the same $1,999 and $2,499 prices. And all this shaving 0.4 pounds off its weight. Full specs and…

Santa Rosa-based iMacs with Brushed Metal Frame on the Horizon?

Call it wishful thinking, but the folks at 9 to 5 Mac are reporting that Apple’s new iMacs (which they say will debut at WWDC) will pack Intel’s Santa Rosa technology and come in sizes larger than the current 24-inch model. Both are pretty safe assumptions, but what they’ll look like is up in the…

AMD Puma to Intel Centrino: “Surrender Your Laptops!”

AMD is charging against Intel’s current Santa Rosa dominance and future Montevina platforms with their Puma chipset. They said it has been designed for mobile computing from the ground up. I say it was about bloody time already. At the core of Puma there is their new Griffin 65nm mobile processor, with cores in separate…

Ultimate Intel Santa Rosa Launch Guide

OK, you’ve heard way too much about Intel’s new chipset today. But do you ever think about tomorrow? What if you suddenly really want to know about Santa Rosa then? Don’t laugh. One day, soon, Santa Rosa will pop back into your head, and you will want the facts. Fast. Well, guess what? They’re all…

Intel’s New Core 2 Duos Get Priced

Now that we’ve shown you the technology and the hardware behind Intel’s new Centrino Duo platform, it’s time to talk CPU pricing. What do these new Core 2 Duos cost? It depends. They range from the top of the line 2.40GHz T7700 ($530) to the Core 2 Duo processor LV L7300 at 1.40GHz ($284). https://gizmodo.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-intels-new-santa-rosa-platf-258885…

AOpen and Niveus Crash the Intel Launch Party

We hit up Intel’s launch party this afternoon to check out some more next-gen Centrino Duo goodness and much to our surprise we came across a pair of fresh-outta-the-oven small form factor PCs that plan on borrowing features from the new mobile platform. https://gizmodo.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-intels-new-santa-rosa-platf-258885 First up is AOpen’s new Mini PC Duo (MP965), which uses…

Lenovo T61 Thinkpad’s Magnesium Rollcage == Wolverine’s Bones

It has come to my attention that the T and the R series Thinkpads, which were leaked by specs last month, have gnarly magnesium roll cages that remind me of Wolverine’s reinforced adamantium skeleton. I’ve always been a Thinkpad fanboy. And while most of the other PC makers are handling this Santa Rosa launch with…