Santa Rosa and Penryn

I'm planning on buying a laptop within the next couple of months, and have held out for the release of santa rosa. I see that by late 07 and early 08, they'll be doing a "shrink" for mobile processors called penryn. When these new processors come out, will i be able to install one into a santa rosa book (i'm lookin at the dv9500t), or will i be stuck with what i buy now?

also, a bit off topic but can I upgrade to and HDDVD or BluRay notebook drive later on?

 

Well not sure about this, but I found this: http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=2985

Last paragraph: "Later this year, Santa Rosa will be updated to support Penryn based mobile CPUs much like Napa was updated in the middle of its life cycle to support Merom, albeit launching with support only for Yonah. Santa Rosa will be replaced in about a year by Montevina, which will add WiMAX support among other things."

Not sure if they are talking about a simple BIOS update or a hardware update..

 

Given Intel's past moves, I doubt that Penryn will work with current Santa Rosa notebooks.

Optical drives aren't a problem usually (and I've been looking for a BluRay or HD-DVD drive myself), and I don't think the nc8430 will be a problem with that either. If you find one, give me a PM and I'll check it out best I can.

 

It might probably work well with first-gen penryn's.
Assuming there wont be any socket change,a bios upgrade might be what all needed.
but it all depends on your manufacturer and motherboard..

 

thanks for the replies. I would ideally like to wait until the release of penryn, but that seems a little too far away, so I guess i'll just buy Santa Rosa and see what happens.

For the optical drive, I'm going to wait a couple of years I think and see which brand emerges, but I'll PM you night if i find anything.

 

I'd like to know that myself. Anyone?

 

Just go ahead and get a santa rosa system

You could wait and wait and there is always something better around the corner. I wouldn't worry though, since there are notebooks out there still being sold with celeron M's in them lol; santa rosa is cutting edge right now and it will be in the lead for a while.

 

Montevina is really promising with WiMAX, I'll skip Santa Rosa for Montevina which will come with better GPU, and battery life.

 

It is to soon to tell if you will be able to upgrade, I dought you will be able to though.