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As always, the answer is: it depends

It won't speed up surfing, email, or word
processing. To suggest that this will help
speed up Apple's Mail application is laughable
to the extreme.

It might speed up games (depends on what the
bottleneck is, if GPU is holding back FPS then
this won't help at all).

It WILL drastically improve things like
transcoding. I used a transcoder that took
advantage of my NVidia card and it was at least
5X faster than anything I had tried before.

The problem with the approach, though, is
that PC software typically had been written to
run with one thread of instructions at a
time.

This is blatantly false. Nearly every non
trivial application you use on your desktop
computer has been written to run with more than
one thread.

Posted by: NonZealot   Posted on: 06/09/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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