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<blockquote data-quote="Aptmunich" data-source="post: 407541" data-attributes="member: 3850"><p>Some observations:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Pro is not really more efficient at all. Technology-wise the 2 are identical, except that the Pro has a minor edge in the RAM department (80MB more, as its graphics card doesn't siphon any off).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually the question isn't really whether an item is 2D or not, it's more about whether the application display the items can utilize the graphics card's cpu. Whilst traditionally the GPU has mainly be utilized by 3D applications, a few apps are now cropping up that make use of the card for 2D image manipulation as well.</p><p></p><p>No better example than Aperture, which can offload some of the work to the GPU. OS X's Core Image feature makes it easy for programs to send certain types of image work off to the graphics card to be crunched.</p><p></p><p>But Photoshop still only uses the main CPU, so there will be zero difference there between the Macbook and Macbook Pro.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aptmunich, post: 407541, member: 3850"] Some observations: The Pro is not really more efficient at all. Technology-wise the 2 are identical, except that the Pro has a minor edge in the RAM department (80MB more, as its graphics card doesn't siphon any off). Actually the question isn't really whether an item is 2D or not, it's more about whether the application display the items can utilize the graphics card's cpu. Whilst traditionally the GPU has mainly be utilized by 3D applications, a few apps are now cropping up that make use of the card for 2D image manipulation as well. No better example than Aperture, which can offload some of the work to the GPU. OS X's Core Image feature makes it easy for programs to send certain types of image work off to the graphics card to be crunched. But Photoshop still only uses the main CPU, so there will be zero difference there between the Macbook and Macbook Pro. [/QUOTE]
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