For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking of getting a laptop. Comparison shopping gives me headaches; stratospheric prices give me headaches. Using a credit card to get one might bury me in debt, but that’s another story.

Anyway, the cornucopia of specs and techs will make you dizzy:

* Processors – Pentium M, Celeron M, Centrino, Centrino Core Solo, Centrino Core Duo
* Memory – SODIMM, DDR2, DDR
* WiFi – 802.11 a/b/g

And now, there’s Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa, Laguna?

If you are unfamiliar with software/technology companies, they are fond of giving names to their products. For example, the code name for Nintendo Gamecube was Dolphin. So Santa Rosa is just a code name for the third generation of Intel Centrino processors. Go read the Wikipedia entry to make yourself go nauseous – it’s a plethora of code names.

Here’s a simple guide on Santa Rosa and the processors that are under that name.

Since I don’t have the grease to get a new laptop (much more those with Santa Rosa, and I am sure Santa Rosa-powered laptops are not yet available here in the Philippines), maybe I instead should go to that kingdom at Santa Rosa. In Laguna, of course.