laptop cpus

[wijcc]

I am getting confused with the naming of cpu/models (all intel). Of these three which are better:
Core 2 duo
centrino core 2 duo
santa rose core 2 duo

Thanks guys

 

[TechnoCorruption]

As far as I know Core 2 Duo is the overall name for Intel's present cpu collection, Centrino just refers to it having these 3 components... wireless network, mobile processor, mobile chipset.

Santa Rosa is the codename for a form of the Core 2 Duo range (just as desktop have Conroe, Allendale, Penryn) with the cpu's having a 800FSB compared to the previous ones having 533FSB and 667FSB. I am 99% sure I am right with what I just said but someone may prove me wrong

 

[wijcc]

Thanks Agr3sive, all the laptops i have been looking at have all builtin wireless (its not to find a laptop these days without it) so is a centrino laptop better than a non centrino laptop with the same cpu (both have builtin wireless & on onboard graphics)??

 

[Voodle]

Centrino is a package name, for a company to be able to brand their laptop as a centrino it has to use intel chipset, intel cpu and intel wireless. They only started using the centrino name again quite recently.. Santa Rosa is the current latest chipset/platform from intel.

 

[wijcc]

thanks voodle

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Santa Rosa 800fsb platform is the one to go for.