Snow Leopard compatibility

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I have a iMac which I bought from Apple in Oct 2008 it has the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS is that card going to work with Snow Leopard as I see the GT and GTS is listed?
 
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listed where?
 
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If it is an Intel model iMac yes. Need more information on processor speed etc.
 
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harryb2448 said:
If it is an Intel model iMac yes. Need more information on processor speed etc.
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Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.30f1
 
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Yes it will run Snow Leopard nicely.
 
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The graphics card has nothing to do with whether it will run SL. I assume what you are concerned about is OpenCL, which may or may not be supported.

For more info on OpenCL, give this a read.
 
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vansmith said:
The graphics card has nothing to do with whether it will run SL. I assume what you are concerned about is OpenCL, which may or may not be supported.

For more info on OpenCL, give this a read.
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Yes CL is waht I am concerned about.
 
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joelw135 said:
Yes CL is waht I am concerned about.
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There's not enough information available presently to definitively address this concern, however, I suspect that most modern Macs with discrete GPUs will have no trouble with OpenCL, including your iMac. The 8800 series GPU, though eclipsed by newer GPUs, is still a very stout GPU.

Also, do keep in mind that software must be written to take advantage of OpenCL, and I suspect it will be at least a few years before we see a plethora of the larger commercial apps re-written to do so. Considering how long it took Adobe and Microsoft to natively support Intel Macs, it might be a very long time indeed.
 
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cwa107 said:
There's not enough information available presently to definitively address this concern, however, I suspect that most modern Macs with discrete GPUs will have no trouble with OpenCL, including your iMac. The 8800 series GPU, though eclipsed by newer GPUs, is still a very stout GPU.

Also, do keep in mind that software must be written to take advantage of OpenCL, and I suspect it will be at least a few years before we see a plethora of the larger commercial apps re-written to do so. Considering how long it took Adobe and Microsoft to natively support Intel Macs, it might be a very long time indeed.
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Thanks, I am going to order it this week from Amazon.
 

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