Early 2008 - What about Snow Leopard

Hi everybody,
I'm wondering which of new technologies in Snow Leopard my Macbook Early 2008 will take advantage of and wich not!
I'm speaking in particular about QuickTime H.264 hardware acceleration, OpenCL, 64 bit support and so on.
Thanks for your replies!
Bye

robertobasile wrote:
Then Quicktime X will works good, but slower because the not hw acceleration.
am I right?
I wouldn't say that... it's just going to be CPU intensive, just like it is now.
with the refinements to the OS itself to reduce needless processes & with the optimization of performance for multi core chips, playback should still be fine, even a bit better even tho the Intel graphics aren't supported on the hardware acceleration.

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