A first true glimpse of
Windows 7, Microsoft's Vista successor, is T minus 1 day and counting. So far we know very little. Oh sure, it
supports multi-touch and takes
1,000 engineers to code but the real details will emerge from Tuesday's kickoff to the
PDC 2008 developer conference. As detailed by
TG Daily, the PDC track notes dedicate 22 of the 155 tracks to Windows 7 with 2 further dedicated to GPU acceleration under the titles, "Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D," and "Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware." Interesting times given Apple's announced OS X
Snow Leopard support for
OpenCL GPU acceleration in partnership with
new best buds, Nvidia, and
Intel planning to
kill off the GPU entirely. Somebody has to be wrong.
[Thanks, Jeelz]
posted Oct 27th 2008 6:26AM
Apple Snow Leopard includes GPU Acceleration just Like Windows' Vista.
I think you are confusing the kind of "GPU acceleration" in question with the GPU accelerated window server (i.e. UI) that Vista sports. The thing in Vista is akin to Quartz or Compiz - drawing the windows as textures on a 3D surface, while the thing allegedly coming in Windows 7 is about doing general purpose computation on the GPU (akin to nVidia CUDA).
He could also be talking about Cuda, which exists only on Windows and Linux.
Sure, it isn't made by Microsoft, but neither is OpenCL.
Naz... the smell is what happen when people actually work with there computers. Its not all about shinny gadgets and show-off.
Ruben, CUDA exists on OSX
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
Needs 10.5.2 or later, and there it is. (hit the dropdown box)
Saad, you're wrong, and lurch is right. Vista's desktop is drawn in 3d mode, one of the biggest advancements from XP. This is talking about bringing a GPGPU API to Windows 7, think massive threading brought forth by .NET/DirectX, and able to be used by any app. This will surely bring a resurgence for a want for high powered hardware for rich desktop apps, and a shift away from crappy netbooks, integrated graphics, and lame web apps.
Dear, Dear Engadget,
I understand that there are some biased opinions on mediums out there. Cough, Fox. But In your case I really am sick of it. This is nothing more than relentless Microsoft/Vista bashing, it's arrogant, unprofessional and could be considered yellow journalism. I even voted for you in the best gadget blog, or whatever it is. Now I want that vote back, this is a disgusting display of "fanboy-ism". So consider this my indefinite last post and visit to mac-gadget, I mean iNgadget. You see where this is going. Everyone on the comments section agrees, cut the crap. You have a great site, but you ruin it with this level of...I have no other word than bullshit.
Much luv,
Burko
Sorry Saad I misread your comment youre not wrong, thought you were apple fanboying. Haha :)
Totally agree with sburko on this one. It is totally unprofessional that these editors are all biassed bloggers and not true journalists. Anyone can read an article and put their ignorant mac friendly spin on any "good for Microsoft" news, but it is WRONG.
THOMAS RICKER I AM LOOKING AT YOU. STOP THE BS.
Actually, Vista copied Quartz Extreme from OS X, which was introduced in version 10.2 back in 2002, when Microsoft was still running around trying to plug holes in XP's securtiy. As a PC user, I wish I could claim that Microsoft innovated here, but the truth is the truth and fanboys like Saad only do a disservice to the users who want Microsoft to step up their game and stop copying Apple for once and be a leader in the industry again.
Snow Leopard takes the GPU one step further by allowing any and all applications to run from the GPU, even sidestepping the CPU in a lot of cases, so that OS X can run the primary operating system, unencumbered in the background.
Some people are so sensitive. I am still waiting for my event viewer to stop filling up with errors and ehrecvr.exe to stop crashing when I start my machine. Microsoft needs some bashing.
Saad: Again, like always, no. You're completely wrong. Again. Vista has GPU acceleration just like OS X did 5 years ago. You fail horribly at understanding what this article is about. Here's a hint, look up OpenCL, it will probably be very illuminating for you. This is the technology Microsoft is now going to copy in Windows 7.
Except of course that OpenCL is, well, open. Windows 7 technologies are proprietary.
Fanboys please.....
I google "GPU accelerated applications" and the first hit is this article with not much of anything else. I added "in Windows" to the search and still no luck. I thought this was a totally new thing? First Saad gets a highest rank for saying that Vista already supports this, then JerkfacedFed gets a highest rank for disagreeing. Then shortly after that JerkfacedFed gets a highest rank for retracting his previous statement. WTF???
Could someone help a brotha out and 'splain to me what I'm missing?
happy_penguin, Windows Vista includes what is called the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which allows to create much more rich software UI with 3D and 2D effects. All graphics (including desktop items like any window) are Direct3D applications, and routing the graphics through Direct3D allows Windows to offload some graphics tasks to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) found on the computer's graphics card. This can reduce the workload on the computer's Central processing unit (CPU), AKA GPU acceleration.
For more information, visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation#Features
To understand WPF even much further, try this application on your Vista machine (Hit the link to run the App):
http://www.thirteen23.com/labs/winfx/downloads/publish/nostalgia/nostalgia.application
And visit this link for more WPF Apps:
http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/
Enjoy some eye pleasing goodness. :)
Thank you for that, Saad. So I assume that the announced GPU acceleration for Snow Leopard is essentially the same thing that Windows Vista already does. In fact, I read this at the link you provided:
"WPF is included with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, and is also available for Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, and Windows Server 2003."
So you could have even said that it's supported in Windows XP. Unfortunately for now I will have to wait to test that on my machine at home as our Windows XP machines here at work are locked down tight for business. Also, if I can't try that out in Windows XP I guess I'll have to wait until I get on a Vista machine. As far as I know right now, nobody I know personally is running Vista. Most of us are content with Windows XP or OSX.
As for what I thought was different and new, I thought it had something to do with utilizing the GPU for totally non graphical processing. Is that what is happening here or did I dream that up somewhere? It's not really clear to me.
@sburko
If you think the posts are bad, have you even heard the podcast? It's disgusting!
So what you all mean to say is that even with my GPU working to do OS stuff and my CPU already on it... All that power and Vista still couldn't run reliably?
It's the end of an era (me thinks anyway). Granted, Microsoft innovated in plenty of stuff, i just don't find that all that innovation was geared towards an efficient use of the hardware it was installed on. To call it something, it didn't degrade gracefully. Macs don't have that trouble because you would know when it's time to buy a new Mac (and also you would need even more money to get a newer one than a new PC). And Linux can do all those things but, alas, it's still rough around the edges (just where the customers pass their fingers over)...
Microsoft Windows 7 must better take care of what Vista was lacking, it wasn't innovation, it must be more intuitive because if you are going to have too much hassle (and more of the same troubles that plague Windows) then consumers might get tempted to switch to any other OS (Haiku anyone? Or maybe Amiga? BeOS?).
Apple won't be an option when price is not an option (if you don't have much you won't be able to spare for one). If Apple releases it's OS outside their hardware or if they prepared low cost alternatives, they might definitively dent Microsoft's marketshare.
Linux might (just might) become that OS IF somebody finds a middle ground between the ultratechnical and the dumbed down and incomplete... The distro that gets it right (and finds a hardware distributor to call it a combo) will make money, and a serious dent on Microsoft's marketshare.
Go Microsoft, i want to be wowed this time for real. Go Apple, release OSX so we don't need Hackintoshes. Go Linux, refine yourselves. Competition is what makes innovation. Everything else is just FUD from fanboys.
ENOUGH WITH ALL THE CONFUSION!
Here are the facts:
When Engadget wrote "GPU acceleration", they really meant "GPGPU" which expands to "general-purpose computing on graphics processing units". Also known as "stream processing", it refers to the concept of utilizing GPUs for arbitrary data processing instead of being restricted to just 3D graphics. As graphics chips have evolved over the last decade, they have switched from being specialized, fixed-function graphics hardware to flexible, highly-programmable parallel processors.
Both nVidia and AMD/ATI have been developing and marketing SDK solutions that allow programmers to take advantage of the massive computational capabilities of GPUs for data-parallel processing (think audio/video encoding/decoding/processing, graphics manipulation, molecular modeling, scientific computing and simulations, Oil/Gas geo-engineering, visualization, etc.). Although Nvidia's "CUDA" SDK has seen some popularity, the future of GPGPU will most likely be in standardized libraries like. Apple is pushing their "OpenCL" standard for OSX 10.6 "Snow Leopard", and Microsoft is pushing DirectX11's "computational shaders" for the same purpose.
also, "Saad" is simply talking about traditional graphics acceleration of the user interface in OSX and Vista.
Trying to make a GPU do general purpose tasks is trying to use a hammer as a screwdriver. You might be able to do it, but it's not optimal. And probably involves screwing around writing shaders to do tasks.
Screw the GPU and start supporting proper dedicated processors. Something like Toshiba's cell should be in every PC - . It would mean screaming performance for audio / video codecs, compression, crypto, physics etc.
it better be good to cover up the smell of vista
Freshly fried donuts?
mmm....donuts
Windows Vista includes GPU Accelerated applications... where have you been, Engadget? Just like your last article, this one smells like it was created only to bash Microsoft for no good reason.
Ugh
yeh, seriously. And even if vista didnt have it, did we realy have to compare it to snow leopard.
Really? Vista includes GPU accelerated _applications_? I must have missed that.
It has a GPU accelerated windowing engine (DWM), but I've not heard of any applications running code in a CUDA-type way through OS features. Oh, and both OSX and Linux had GPU-accelerated windowing ages before Vista. There is no GPGPU SDK in Vista as far as I'm aware.
It's good that Microsoft is going to include GPGPU in DirectX 11. I just wish they would work with Apple on standards - OpenCL is designed to be a standard (only insofar as that Apple is calling Microsoft's bluff - they know Microsoft won't accept it or work with it, so they'll claim it's 'open' and be open source heroes).
Considering there will be more applications using DX11 General Acceleration than there will be using OpenCL even years after its released, I wouldn't call OpenCL the standard.
The standard OpenGL has gone really far, has it not?
In the end, there are not going to be many applications that will even need either DX11 or OpenCL. It seems hard enough to write an encoder that uses the GPU to encode. I'm still waiting for that to come out (in a working fashion).
"The standard OpenGL has gone really far, has it not?"
Actually, it has. Not only is it deeply integrated in to OSX, but it's also on the iPhone, Sony Playstation 2 and 3 and PSP, and forms the backbone for Linux's 3D effects. Pretty much everything that needs 3D or hardware accelerated graphics and isn't from Microsoft uses OpenGL.
DirectX is bad for the industry. It ties developers down to Windows and Microsoft platforms in the same way Microsoft broke internet standards to promote Internet Explorer and kill off Netscape. Forcing people to stay on your platform through proprietary software is bad. Why do you think there aren't many Mac games? DirectX. That might seem like a "competitive advantage", but it's bad for software developers, and means Microsoft don't have much incentive to innovate - developers are tied to their platform whether they do a good job or not.
Windows users sure like to complain. If Engdget is so bias, Why continue to visit their site. Many Windows users said Engadget had lost them as readers when the story on the Vista update was released. That did not last long then did it.
@Adrian
I think you're confusing 'complaining' with 'wanting parity'. We also don't want Engadget to become just another Apple sponsored weblog like Gizmodo.
Adobe use OpenGL in CS4 for the hardware acceleration.
Although in games, only iD appear to have much love for OpenGL anymore, and everyone else is on DirectX; which is partly why Xbox 360 and PC games are easy to develop together (that an Microsoft's dev environment) whereas PS3 uses OpenGL (and Mac and Linux too).
It's not news that Microsoft planned to bring GPGPU to DirectX 11 API so this should work on Vista too, the questions are:
* Will they use nVidia's CUDA or ATi's CTM approach, or OpenCL, or something proprietary to Microsoft?
* How much integration with the OS? With API being inside DX11 and therefore supported in Vista, can't see much. Apparently Apple are building GPGPU and multi-core CPU support into the OS in such a way that all apps should benefit, rather than ones that specifically call an API.
The other "hot" news is that DirectX will be multithreaded in version 11 to take advantage of multicore CPU -- OpenGL did this ages ago.
"We also don't want Engadget to become just another Apple sponsored weblog like Gizmodo."
Too late.
Windows Movie Maker and DVD Maker are GPU accelerated in Vista.
I wonder how much Apple pays Engadget for forcing an OSX comparison into a headline about a Windows feature.
WTF you hobos! Vista always had GPU acceleration!
What they meant, of course (shame on all of you above) is that it might feature non-graphics accelleration using the GPU. I.e: run normal application code on the GPU. That's what OpenCL is for. The only thing I've seen Microsoft do in this field is releasing a beta of the Microsoft Research project called "Accellerator", which was apperently abandoned somewhere in 2006 (http://research.microsoft.com/Research/downloads/Details/25e1bea3-142e-4694-bde5-f0d44f9d8709/Details.aspx).
So yes, this is something that is not yet supported in Vista (or Leopard for that matter). Apple has announced that Snow Leopard will feature built in support for OpenCL. Hence this article, methinks.
I read all those other posts before I go to one person who understand the blog.
someone needs to be fired.
Yeah. All the commenters above stating that Vista already had GPU acceleration (as defined in the article).
Yes, these features are coming! Windows 7 is being unveiled today at 8:30AM (LA time).
Also check out this article for more suggested features: http://www.martijnbrant.net/2008/10/windows-7-looking-ahead-at-pdc
Leopard already utilizes the GPU for desktop rendering. No need to wait for Snow Leopard.
What MS Claims:
- Better Bluetooth Support
- A new integrated software to control Audio/Video settings
- A new ControlCenter to manage all preferences. (Maybe Control Panel will be like Prefs on OS X)
And some fresh new features that are in SnowLeopard... Such as 32-bit and 64-bit switching....
[Via ZDNet Article]
The GPU isn't going anywhere, and I find the sentence as written suggesting it may be gone soon very confusing.
Wow I wonder how much M$ is paying these losers to keep saying 'Vista already has it' and then go and 1+ themselves. Probably the losers in those failure Vista ads. God just delete this article and start again, making special mention that Vista is just as hopeless as everyone ALREADY knows it is. Christ almighty.
I knew I should have kicked you mother in the belly 15years ago. Damnit!
i hear hangers are much more efficient.
Yes, more eyecandy in Windows 7 - Just the thing that I was looking for, and the thing that was missing in Vista...
This is a framework to use the GPU as a processor, one that is much easier to code than CUDA, announced in the summer when they were talking about DX 11.
This has nothing to do with eye candy.
like apple like apple... at least I'll be able to run my applications on windows and my web browser will not crash every 2 hours...
shhh
they'll ban you from engadget with that attitude!
Have you ever used internet explorer?
The only decent browsers on Windows are Firefox and Chrome. FF is cross-platform, and Chrome is based on WebKit (i.e. Safari engine). Even IE was better on OSX than Windows (used the MS-developed Tasman engine, which was more standards compliant than Trident)
This GPU Acceleration for Applications is very exciting. I am really looking forward to getting my hands on Windows 7. I think i read somewhere that they incorporated better usage of multicore processors too. What the technical side of this is however, i don't know.
Did you guys know the Snow Leopard is endangered and is dying out?
Poor Kitty :(
I am getting annoyed of Engadget.
If this continue, I will stop viewing this website.
Already I placed a ad-blocker (Ad-Block Plus) in Firefox to not support your site even more.
I have feelings that this website is own by a division of Apple computers.
IF you don't like Engadget then go to Gizmodo, which is worst.
Well if you bothered to actually read the article, maybe you'd realize their comparison is actually not that far-fetched. And to all the bashers on either side: who cares if company X copies feature Y from company Z. If it helps make the software better, then why is it a bad thing? 'Borrowing' features is one of the most common practices in software development. Game developers do it all the time. Give it a rest.
I'm not sure why you are getting your knickers in a twist over it. Apple announced OpenCL for Snow Leopard back in June and now Microsoft sounds like they might be about to announce something similar in their new OS. Sounds like perfectly fair reporting of the story, no?
Links to TG Daily. Excellent site. Find them much more unbiased than here.
"Bas @ Oct 27th 2008 8:06AM
.... who cares if company X copies feature Y from company Z. If it helps make the software better, then why is it a bad thing? 'Borrowing' features is one of the most common practices in software development. Game developers do it all the time. Give it a rest."
You got that right. ... Apple copies Microsoft copies Apple copies Microsoft...
So, Bad_Bytes, don't let the door hit you in the ass... Bye, goodbye, buh-bye .... hugs... let's do lunch sometime, okay? :)
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It's not a question who copied who.
It's a question of:
1- Saying proper facts. The article suggest that this is a new Windows 7 feature. It is not! It's like saying: "The Mac Book Pro features a battery". It's just as lame as that.
2- I know it's hard to be unbiased, but Engadget is getting way over the top in worshiping Mac's. I also would dislike the contrary, a balance is needed!
Engadget is actually a division of AOL-Time Warner, dolt.
Quit your bitching everybody. How the hell does this not warrant a comparison to OS X?
Snow leopard will include support for GPU as CPU capabilities, so Windows 7 damn sure better include something on par, or no consumer computing rig will even come close to the processing capabilities of a macbook pro.
I am not in either fanboy camp, I'm one of the guys on the side shaking his head.
I went back and read this article, TWICE and don't see how this is Engadget being pro-apple or anti-MS in any way.
Two upcoming, competing OS'es are touting similar, revolutionary technologies, and it doesn't warrant a comparison or much less a mention, for Christ's sake?
STFU fanboys, Engadget's done a fine job with this article, though there has been some bias in recent times.
lol vista
Ok Engadget, you have won. I have just gotten myself an old-gen Macbook (love the design and simplicity). Now stop bashing Microsoft.
*Trashes out Mac OS and installs Vista Ultimate*
You're better off getting the older Macbooks. From what i heard a good few people are having problems with the new Battery latch is loosening and some of the keys are slanting.
Also if you have ordered a customised designed macbook, you will not get a return or refund under any circumstances unless it's Dead on Arrival. Which is a shame if you ask me because as a product i genuinely believe that they are quite good looking laptops.
I got the Macbook white as it did not have the extreme glossy Display along with the out of place looking screen bezel.It was also somewhat cheaper now that the new ones are out and I am guessing (like you pinted out on the battery latch) that the older Design is somewhat more refined. Its a great and clean looking notebook, where you don't have tons of stickers and preinstalled crapware on a machine along with 8 different keys just to change the damn volume or brightness (Acer Gemstone 2). Love the fact that the hardly used function keys are being given the duty of multimedia etc.
Of course its coming to Windows, and of course its coming to OSX, simply because its the right time. This GPGPU stuff has been coming for a few years and its finally hitting the stage where its (relatively) main stream enough to warrant being built right into the OS.
Saying Microsoft are copying Apple is ridiculous. Apple just happened to announce their OS before Microsoft. Microsoft have been holding back which is a good thing. It hopefully means all the planned features will be close enough to finished for them to be able to promise they will be in the final OS. Something they really up on quite majourly in Vista
Oh my god, you copied me didn't you by using the same language as me, and i bet you used a keyboard too to write that post! Copycat :)
Maybe But it will probably not work right!
Someone forgot to tell those 1000 coders that the pressing of
"Alt + Ctrl + Delete" , does not constitute "multi touch" functionality...
LOL. Now that's my laugh for the day... Back to the ol' grind.
I can't wait for Larrabee to come and put all this DirectX vs OpenCL rubbish to bed.
Larrabee is going to revolutionise things big time, mark my words \0/
I think that they (Microsoft) should give Windows 7 to the unfortunate people (like me) that have to suffer through Vista (the only thing that stopped me from installing OSx86 or Linux is the games)...
It was only your lack of competence that made using Vista such a poor experience.
And just like aero, people will bitch that they need a video card made in this decade to run windows.
Sigh. Already beginning with the "Windows stole xyz from OS X" mantra again...
The news of GPGPU functionality in Windows 7 is just as old, if not older than the news of OpenCL being using in Snow Leopard. I didn't see Engadget posting an article during WWDC 2008 titled "Snow Leopard to feature GPU acceleration like Microsoft's Windows 7?"...
Dude, seriously. DirectX 11 was announced at the end of July at the Gamefest conference (July 20-ish, I believe) and I can't remember whether the GPGPU functionality was among the features mentioned (the earliest I heard about it was sometime in August). WWDC'08 was June 9 - June 13. I agree that the whole who-stole-what game is ridiculous, but let's not say stupid stuff in the other extreme.
^DirectX 11 has been in development since the release of Vista. Nothing I said was extreme.
And actually, you can find articles regarding DX11 from around June 10th, such as this one:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-First-Taste-of-DirectX-11-Soon-Version-11-Is-Based-on-DirectX-10-87617.shtml
Hey Ballmer, How about making SPEED your biggest new feature in Windows 7. I don't need cool borders, or a fancy screen saver as a feature - how bout making it faster on ALL hardware.
Streamline it for older PCs - so it is faster at booting (that means when you are IN windows and you aren't waiting for things to load any more - I don't expect it to load more apps in startup faster but at least the same amount as an identical XP machine), shutting down, opening ALL apps, COPYING files on a NETWORK, copying files from hard drive to hard drive etc.
Leverage new hardware. If a person has a new quad or core 2 system 2 or more gigs of memory etc - make it run 64 bit, multithreading etc to the max so that it does things faster than XP on the same hardware.
See this is why Windows will always be bulkier than something like OSX. It has to support multiple hardware platforms. I think a lot of people forget about this way too often.
"1,000 engineers to code" great, but 1k monkeys banging on typewriters are still just monkeys. After being burned by Vista I really can't say that this has me very impressed as of yet. How many new great features was Vista supposed to have brought out, but were axed? Take a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_removed_from_Windows_Vista
Also, before you MS get your panties in a bunch, this isn't a fanboy post! I've been relatively happy with Microsoft products since MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.11 (except for when they took my dosshell away, pre-OSR2 win95, and winME), they make good operating systems and I'm not afraid to admit it.
So tell me guys, is this like a server or something!¡!? So PC's won't get virus just like apple.
YEs windows 7 will have DX11, and so will vista, what else is 'new'?
"A Solid Foundation for New Possibilities" - Who is writing their material, Al Gore?
Ho hum.
If it's still as bloated as Vista, Windows 7 will need all the assistance it can get, GPU acceleration or otherwise.
Vista's underpinnings are antiquated and can't support additional features without adding needless complexity. Around 2000 Microsoft needed to end the NT/XP line with XP and start with a fresh base. They rested on their laurels and Vista is clear evidence of their mistake. Those who think otherwise are failing to acknowledge the horsepower required for their Vista machine to be tolerable. Windows 7 will be little more than additional gloss tacked onto a already cumbersome and buckling core.
I wish it were otherwise because I administrate PCs all day at this is getting old. Windows 7 will just be Vista 2 and that's sad.
I feel bad for people who use your admin'd pcs. You SHOULDN'T be using Vista on an old machine. It is backwards compatible for application purposes, not hardware. It tells the minimum system specs right on the website. I have two modern computers, both running Vista (Laptop: Core 2 Duo, 2gb RAM,GeForce Go 7600 Vista Home Premium, Desktop: Q6600, 4gb RAM, 8800GTS, Vista Business) and both run extremely well no matter what I throw at it. I've had a VM running XP with VS2008 and VS2005 open at the same time with no lag.
"Vista's underpinnings are antiquated and can't support additional features without adding needless complexity."
Have you tried writing software?? It isn't point-click like being an admin is. Its complicated to add certain features, which complicates the piece of software. If you understand how software is written and what Vista does, it does a fantastic job. Yes, it could do things better like update the whole registry system or create a relational database file system, but no other OS has that yet. It takes awhile to create major upgrades that would be backward compatible and 100% usable in the situations that the old system is.
Basically, dont bitch about Vista if you haven't tried it on a system with the minimum requirements (aka modern PC). I've used almost every Windows since 95, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, and Fedora. Vista is completely my favorite OS to date. Learn how it works, if you still hate it, then you can bitch.
@JMMGoalster
Yes. I tried it on both old and new machines.
It sucks.
Really can't tolerate anymore and then I went back to Xp.
There are very few general use technologies in computing right now that a well read researcher from the early 1980's would be (conceptually) surprised by. The idea that these technologies were "copied" is especially laughable. They have been concepts for about as long computing has existed. This is, in fact, true for most things that people claim have been copied by one group or the other. You can tell most off the loudmouths spouting this nonsense are brain dead fanbois who haven't read the history and theory of UI's and computer technology in general and spend most of their time in tiresome echo chambers.
actually it only took 200 engineers the rest were preparing progress reports and UML collaboration graphs which the 200 engineers mostly ignored since they had already finished the implementation about 3 different times so the just picked the one closest to the diagrams...
So, could this help me out? I've got a laptop that has dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTXs in SLI mode, which I'm positive perform much faster than the computer's CPU, a single-core AMD Turion Mobile TL-44, 2.4 GHz. If the OS could direct most computation to the GPUs I would think everything could run even faster...Right?
im still not sure
As mentioned, Engadget is referring to offloading general-purpose processing onto the GPU (aka GPGPU/Stream processing) *NOT* GPU ACCELERATED USER INTERFACES...