On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Jacqueline Vitali <jackie.vit...@gmail.com>wrote:
> (2) Second option is an IMAC 4 GB 2.5 GHz with AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB > GDDRS. > > --How does Coot work with this graphics card? > I don't have exactly this, but something very similar (6770M), and it works very well for me so far, but I'm not a power user. And I definitely don't use stereo, which I assume the iMac won't do. --Should I get more memory for Lion? > Yes, absolutely - double it for sure. (Don't upgrade when ordering from Apple unless you have money to burn - you can buy the memory elsewhere for a fraction of the price.) Most of the time you will not need 8GB, but when you want to use all four processor cores at once for refinement etc., it is essential. --Is this platform advisable for crystallographic software for the next four > years? > For a workstation (or laptop), yes (for clusters/servers I would still recommend Linux). I don't know of any macromolecular crystallography programs that don't run on Mac - my only real complaint is that I really preferred running Coot on Linux (Apple's fault). However, if you care about having hardware stereo, there may be other issues - I have no experience with this. -Nat
