Japan and Korea get Sonoma notebooks tommorow (Jan 5)

[stateofbeasley]

http://english.chosun.com/w21d...0501/200501040022.html

ntel Corp., the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, permitted Korean and Japanese firms to retail the Sonoma-installed laptops two weeks earlier than their official worldwide launch that is scheduled for Jan. 19.

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Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics will begin selling the souped-up laptops Wednesday, and will commence full marketing activities from the following week.

 

[Jassi]

Questions -

Is sonoma the new core that is replacing Dothan? What are the major upgrades besides clock speed and how are these souped up?

 

[stateofbeasley]

No Sonoma is a new platform: Dothan Pentium M + 915PM/GM chipset + 2915ABG Wireless. Brings PCIe, Azalia Integrated Audio, SATA, Dual channel DDR2 and a few other power saving features to the Centrino platform.

 

[Jassi]

I forgot, isnt Alvisio the new core?

 

[stateofbeasley]

Alviso is the 915PM/GM chipset series.

 

[MySoS]

Will there also be big price drop come the 19th.

 

[Jassi]

In the regular Centrino series? Probably a gradual one cuz the new ones will cost lots of $$$.

 

[MySoS]

Isn;t the current 1.6ghz 210 the new one is 210 also, will intel just keep them at the same price.