Snow Leopard Gives Last-Gen MacBooks Multitouch, But No GPGPU or
h.264 AccelerationS  The conversation about Snow Leopard's
compatibility with older hardware has been dominated by
complaints that it won't support PowerPC—something we've all
known for months. But Snow Leopard will have some mixed
implications for more recent hardware, too.  First, we have a
possible bonus feature for last-gen MacBook users. According to
Snow Leopard's "Enhancements and Refinements" page:   This seems
to mean that older MacBooks, which only supported two-finger
scrolling, will be brought up to speed with the latest in
awkward finger-swiping technology. It sounds strange that Apple
would leave capabilities like this unlocked for so long, but as
hackers discovered months ago, that's pretty much what they did.
This is followed, unfortunately, by a swift kick in the penis:
None of Snow Leopard's fancy new GPU offloading features,
including h.264 video acceleration, will work on the millions
and millions of Macs with Intel integrat