Today we do increasingly frequently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU#Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU#Applications Especially on the Mac, si

Today we do increasingly frequently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU#Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU#Applications Especially on the Mac, since the vast majority of new Apple machines come with CUDA-capable NVIDIA cards now and developers can expect them. Even so, the article was referring to the fact that you can pack that kind of power in a desktop now, regardless of whether or not the average consumer tends to take advantage of it.