Question on the Santa Rosa Notebooks

I have many questions about this notebook, because my brother needs to buy a new notebook, and he's interested in the new Santa Rosa Notebooks.

1.) What exactly is this new "Santa Rosa" notebook?

2.) I've heard something about the integrated graphics card. It's like X3100 or something. Does this support Direct X 10 graphics?

3.) Is the X3100 integrated chipset better than the nVidia GO 7600 and 7600 GT series?

4.) Is this a computer worth buying now?

 

1.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino#Santa_Rosa_platform_.282007.29
2.) Yes.
3.) Depends.
4.) Also depends


The new intel integrated gpu will support DX10, but I don't know how well it will game. Probably not as well as the 7600 for games on dx9.

 

2.) Not yet... atleast what I heared. Intel says they might be able to make DX10 work with a driver update.

3.) No I dont think so. There where some benchmarks that showed it to be as fast as the x1400 but thats it. Even those benchmarks were of the X3100 for desktops. The mobile x3100 might be even slower.

 

The GMA X3100 is unfortunately not DirectX 10 complaint:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=122045
It probably doesn't matter because the GMA X3100 isn't going to be powerful enough to play the latest games comfortably anyway.

 

Ah, Ok, Thank you then.

I'm not going to buy that computer with that graphics card then.


Thanks again