This all sounds quite exciting! Nice to see Apple trying to tap GPU power for programs. However, I'll buy it when I can just buy the disk and pop it into my PC and install it without hacking.... In the mean time, WinXP and Ubuntu will suit me fine.

P.S. I realize that will not happen with the current Apple business model...

That's nice, but how about getting a GUI that's as pretty as Aero?

wonder how intel feels when gpu's are stealing from cpu's spotlight! lol.

Uhm, apart from answering post #1 (just check www.apple.com and you'll see that iMac can have GeForce 8800 GS, I have a general question about using GPU for such things... Doesn't it use MUCH more power than Intel or AMD processors? I mean, when a graphic cards works at full power, it's about 170/200 W, where AMD&/Intel chips just use a fraction... Or maybe I'm missing anything about all this buzz?

Why are they trying to reinvent the wheel? Because they are cool?

Now only if Apple can get decent video cards in their machines I might care.

"Apple knows a lot about CUDA," Huang said, implying the company might be ready to formally embrace Nvidia's technology to make it easier to exploit graphics chips inside Macs. Apple's implementation "won't be called CUDA, but it will be called something else," Huang said in an interview here at Nvidia's headquarters on Wednesday.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9962117-37.html

So many cores on CPUs and GPUs with yet ANOTHER interface to build on?

Apple has to be working on getting their core apps using all cores since their "consumer" apps barely tap two and four cores.

"Apple seems interested in the concept, too, but it apparently wants to go about the implementation in a different way."

Biggest twist of the year. O_O