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November 13, 2006

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Enquiring minds need tech notes

Posted Nov. 13, ’06, 6:23 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Geekery

TN2085 Today’s selections from Apple’s extensive technical documentation are TN2085 (affectionately referred to as “Enabling multi-threaded execution of the OpenGL framework”) and the MacBook Developer Note.

The former gives developers the details they need to optimize their OpenGL code to take advantage of multiple cores/processors. Considering all current Macs now have multiple cores, it’s probably a good idea for all Mac developers using OpenGL to take a look.

The latter covers all the hardware details of the MacBook that you could be interested in. It’s even been updated to cover the new Core 2 Duo version. My favorite tidbit is the fact that the Airport Extreme card is actually connected over a dedicated PCI Express link. Perhaps that information will be enough for some enterprising hacker to find a way to attach a real video card.


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