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Quote: Originally Posted by Brad Oliver OpenGL 3.0 has nothing to do with DX10 functionality being added; it was promoted as a major API clean-up to remove and restructure *older* API instead, which obviously carries with it no small...

Quote: Originally Posted by Snafu It doesn't help that The Chronos Group failed to materialize its promise of OpenGL 3.0 matching DirectX 10's 3D capabilities. I have to agree. OpenGL had a great opportunity since it allows Windows XP...

Quote: Originally Posted by John the Geek Apple invented OpenCL. NVidia has been working close with Apple. NVidia already have OpenCL compliant hardware, whereas ATI does not. How doesn't this tie Apple to NVidia? Where do you get...

Is the EFi-X really unstoppable? Couldn't Apple simply bring out an EFI update to all Macs that say adds some proprietary power management code that would obviously be optimized for Mac hardware and be critical to OS X functionality....

Quote: Originally Posted by Tauron If I understood correctly, around mid 2009 we can expect to have snow leopard and applications that take advantage of OpenCL + GPU power. I am looking forward to this. It will be extremely cool to have...

Nice to get comments right from nVidia. I guess this means that nVidia will continue to be supporting C for CUDA alongside OpenCL. I wonder if you can get a statement from nVidia whether they will move PhysX to OpenCL? Right now PhysX...

Quote: Originally Posted by TBaggins Or maybe nVidia tried to pull a fast one on Apple (and others), because nVid didn't want to eat the (pretty tremendous) cost of fixing the issue. That wouldn't surprise me at all, particularly if...

Apple may well have known that the 9600M GT still uses the old bump material, but may have concluded that it was an acceptable risk. The 9600M GT is produced on a 65nm process instead of 80nm like the 8600M GT and it's heat consumption...

It surprises me that Apple doesn't already offer adapters to get the Cinema Display to work with DVI to support at least the older Mac models without DP. It seems like an obvious thing to do and can only increase the market for the...

While it may be true that it'd be foolish to take any advertising at face value, I'm surprised Apple is so blunt about it as their defense. It may be true, but it has terrible PR implications. Personally, I think the lawyer writing the...