Apple will sooner or later release Santa Rosa laptops; there are surely a faithful few who feel their weekly pilgrimages to The Apple Store aren’t being properly respected by Lord Jobs. But new Leopard driver evidence nearly proves that Apple does have Santa Rosa MacBooks (and Mac Minis) in their sights. Some software enthusiasts found a full set of GMA X3100 drivers within Leopard’s files, which are basically for a Santa Rosa chipset with integrated graphics (making it useless for MacBook Pros that use separate graphics cards). But even more interesting that the driver itself was the date it was added.

Tacked on to the OS on just October 11th, this was a last minute addition by Apple. Maybe this means nothing, or maybe this means that we’ll be seeing Santa Rosa laptops sooner as opposed to later. Seeing as the first Santa Rosa laptops hit in May, it’s about damn time this low to moderate update makes its way to Apple’s low-end lineup.

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