@JPC iPod and pr0n are two words I have never thought to link until today, and to be honest I never thought they would be. After all who wants to watch pr0n on a tiny 3in screen?

OpenCL, nvidia Cuda and ATI Stream SDK will make no difference to me as I have a rubbish Geforce 8400GS and a limiting 250W PSU (yea lol)on my AMD Phenom powered Acer Aspire M5100.

"Their recognition that the GPU will now play an essential role in consumer applications is a significant milestone in the history of computing."

Consumer applications, huh? Like what? Wordpad? Windows Movie Maker? Solitaire? Internet Explorer?

I'll be sure to let my mother know she needs a $200 gpu to read her mail.

I mean, I am about to purchase a top of the line GPU to accelerate Adobe AfterFX but that is work, hardly a consumer application.

I know a few consumers, they browse the web, they read mail, they even look at the pictures from their digital cameras, stuff that would run nicely on a piii at 1ghz or so hadn't it been for modern security software. They keep upgrading because the virus software slows just about anything to a crawl. Maybe they should accelerate that on the gpu and call it the vpu, the virus processing unit, at least -that they'd understand.

Agreed. And no Nvidia, nobody is going to use Cuda now. It was all a big waste of time and money.

Truly open and platform agnostic GPGPU computing for all! Once ffdshow and the like video codecs get ported to it I can finally compress my iPod pr0n in a matter of seconds instead of minutes!