04-12-2010, 05:32 AM
M A V I C wrote:
If you're not in Photoshop or other graphics or video editing apps a lot, the then only advantage you're going to get is if you like to have a ton windows open or play really high quality videos.
Snow Leopard uses GPU acceleration for the GUI.
Note the supported graphics cards:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
OpenCL
requires one of the following graphics cards or graphics processors:
* NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600
* ATI Radeon HD 4670, ATI Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD 4870