Santa Rosa platform now, Penryn CPU addon later?

Will I be able to purchase a Santa Rosa notebook this May/June and later on say early next year be able to purchase a Penryn CPU and install it into that same laptop? From the way I understand it, Santa Rosa is the laptop motherboard configuration... with support for Penryn, right? Is it even common and possible to replace CPUs in notebooks?

Whatever the case, this situation I'd like to realize... so whatever I'd have to buy, whether that's a Clevo type notebook or other.

I ask this because I will be leaving the country this summer and need a notebook before hand, but the Penryn processor is very appealing to me.

 

Yes you can change the processor at a later time, the only thing you need to be aware of is the Socket that your motherboard is.

The Santa Rosa will be Socket P I believe, I haven't found out if the Penryn processor will be Socket P, but maybe someone else knows this already o.o.

 

A good second question on this subject... are mobile CPUs decently priced and where do you get just that part? I know you can buy notebook memory seperately, that I can see, but CPUs, and heatsink/fans for it too?

 

you can buy notebook cpus seperatly but they are rather exspensive

 

Just searching, at newegg.com you can buy Core 2 Duo's I'm sure you'll be able to buy Penryn's once they're released.
Although I'm not sure if the cpu's come with another heatsink, I think the one in your notebook might be able to work with a different processor. I believe the heatsink attaches itself to the motherboard so the processor can be of a different size.

 

Can you share your information source with us please? I need to read about it to see what my choices are.

Thanks adinu!

 

The desktop Penryn should be using socket LGA775 which makes it somewhat compatable to current C2D desktops (bios upgrade??)

I have also read reports that there will be Penryn CPUs for santa rosa but that they will have a FSB of 800 (Q1 2008) where as Montevina will have 1066 (Q2 2008).

But even if that is true there is a good chance that the early santa rosa mainboards might not support Penryn. Bios upgrades might also not be available and so on.

 

Penryn should be compatible in terms of the socket it uses, with the newer Merom processors for Santa Rosa. However, to upgrade at a later date, you will almost certainly have to update the BIOs, and that is if the manufacturer of the notebook releases an update. The uprade is similar frm going to a Core Duo to a Core 2 Duo.

Bear in mind, that Penryn will probably not offer much to those people who don't use ay processor intensive applications on their notebooks. That means, that if your tasks aren't video editing,encoding or something else processor dependant, you will not gain much by upgrading. Its likely that Penryn will also be limited by the FSB anyway. Its similar to the current Merom processors being limited by the FSB.