10-24-2009, 04:33 PM
freeradical wrote:
It just seem so wrong to force people to upgrade to the model with the better graphics card if all they need is a bigger hard drive. Some people just don't play video games.
With Snow Leopard especially, better video cards are not just about games.
In Mac OS X, Apple has exploited the power of modern video cards to enhance user interface and interaction with technologies like Quartz Extreme, Core Image, Core Animation, and Core Video. Snow Leopard takes GPU exploitation to a whole new level with OpenCL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-maco...media.html