Intel's Santa Rosa Platform is Alive on Vestel Notebook at CeBIT

[Notebook Solutions]

Intel's Santa Rosa Platform is Alive!

While we were at CeBIT this Monday (the last day of the show), we visited with a Turkish company named Vestel. Vestel produces notebooks and LCD screens that are sold mostly in Europe. While looking over some of the notebooks Vestel had on display we noticed one with specifications that indicated a 2.4GHz T7700 Intel processor. I could not believe my eyes, they actually had a Santa Rosa notebook running there!

Here are some first shots of the Santa Rosa platform with its X3100 integrated video accelerator.

The specifications of the Vestel notebook (view large image)

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Vestel notebook running the T7700 2.4 GHz Santa Rosa processor (view large image)

 

The Intel X3100 video accelerator scores a 2.7 on Vista’s System Performance Assessment, 128 MB dedicated memory for the X3100 (view large image)

I must have been the first one to notice this at the show, despite the fact it had already been running for five days. Once I'd pointed this out it only took a couple of minutes for the chief of Toshiba come over from their booth next door and complain to Vestel that they are not permitted to show off the new Santa Rosa platform. It is forbidden to do so by Intel. I hope that I do not bring this new company any problems and Intel doesn't catch wind of this, their notebook lineup is quite nice and they could offer some strong competition in Europe! Some pics of more Vestel notebooks are below:

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[Andrew]

Thanks for the detective work and uncovering Vestel!

I was actually at their booth a few days before you and was impressed by their lineup, I did not notice the DJR154SG notebook (what a mouthful) running Santa Rosa notebook like you did though. They had a ton of notebooks there, which is my excuse for missing it I guess.

That's hilarious the Toshiba guys busted over to challenge Vestel on this. I'm unfamiliar with this company, but looking at their website it seems that they make a number of products, from TVs to air conditioners to washing machines.

http://www.vestel.com/en/products

[jsis]

Windows experience index: 2.7

For shame!!!

[lappyhappy]

Originally Posted by jsis

Windows experience index: 2.7

For shame!!!

I'm sure the low score is because of the integrated graphics. I'd be curious to know what the score for the processor was.

[Zero]

Great find Charlie. The Vestel notebooks do look quite good, but as Andrew mentioned, we've not heard of the company before.

[JM]

! My GMA950 gets a higher score than that!

[Paul]

Funny how they put an S/PDIF on there when Vista won't let you use it correctly.

[jetstar]

Good find Charlie! Those Vestel notebooks look good. Quite stylish, I might add.

[Notebook Solutions]

Thanks for the complimants guys.

Please keep in mind that this notebook was running on Beta drivers. The Santa Rosa platform will be launched at May (I asked the Intel chief, he only said Q2 2007) so that means that they have a lot of time to write a good driver for this video card.

Vestel is an old and well known company in Turkey. Now it is also in the notebook business. I wonder if they will ever be able to compete with Asus and Acer though. I wish them luck (Turkish here too )

Edit: Lappyhappy I know reliased that I should have also checked that. That's a real shame!

[JM]

Originally Posted by Notebook Solutions

Please keep in mind that this notebook was running on Beta drivers. The Santa Rosa platform will be launched at May (I asked the Intel chief, he only said Q2 2007) so that means that they have a lot of time to write a good driver for this video card.

Ahh, right.

I would have expected Intel to have had more mature drivers for it already.

But, since it's not out until May, they have time.