Apple Enabled GPU Hardware Decoding of h.264 on New MacBooks, Pros and Airs?

**admin** · 19 Oct 2008, 03:15 PM

This suggests that the version of Mac OS X on newly released MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs based on the new NVIDIA chipsets now offers GPU-accelerated h.264 video decoding for the first time. While Apple has previously included graphics cards (such as the NVIDIA 8600M GT) that have contained hardware support for h.264 decoding, the company has apparently not previously taken advantage of it.

Apple Enabled GPU Hardware Decoding of H.264 on New MacBooks, Pros and Airs?

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/18/apple-enabled-gpu-hardware-decoding-of-h-264-on-new-macbooks-pros-and-airs/

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