http://www.gizmodo.com.au the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:41:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/06/giz_explains_mac_os_106_snow_leopard_parallel_processing_and_gpu_computing-2/ http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/06/giz_explains_mac_os_106_snow_leopard_parallel_processing_and_gpu_computing-2/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0000 Matt Buchanan http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/06/giz_explains_mac_os_106_snow_leopard_parallel_processing_and_gpu_computing-2.html As you’ve probably heard, the next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, will not wow us with a crazy circus of features like Time Machine and Boot Camp. So why would Apple spend a year programming an OS that they can’t boast has over 300 new features? Here’s a quick rundown of how Apple is totally rebuilding OS X to take advantage of Core 2 Duos, graphics cards and parallel processing, in order to deliver serious performance gains. And yes, that is a big deal.

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