“It looks like he’s taking a release cycle to just concentrate on making things better and faster under the hood. It also looks like there are a lot of programming libraries coming to help developers easily take advantage of all of the power of a modern machine, like multiple cores and the GPU. If it’s easy for developers, it means better, more powerful software for us.”
Yes, as a developer this sounds pretty exciting. Writing software to really take advantage of multicore has been tough so far, it’ll be great if Apple can make it easier. Access to the GPU for compute power is a hot area too.
I’m very happy I made the move to Apple. I feel the added value MORE than makes up for any added cost. The great bundled software helps a lot! BTW, like a Mercedes or BMW, an Apple computer commands top resale value.
Access to the GPU for compute power is a hot area too.
I notice mention of that, and I have to ask: how does the processing speed of a GPU relate to that of a core of a CPU?Is a GPU effectively an array processor, or suchlike?