Thanks Sabuj,
I thought so, but couldn't be sure, as a lot depends on the quality of
the drivers... w/o Direct Rendering (ATI drivers sucks!), my ath64
laptop with R9700 only manages to give me some 4 fps... that makes it
all but unusable. so i was afraid to find myself in an even worst
situation... Hopefully, PyMol takes advantage of Altivec... I'll give it
a try. thanks again...
luca
Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
Hi,
I can run pymol smoothly on my celeron-m 1.3ghz laptop with intel
i855gmch embedded graphics chip. This has no dedicated memory and
uses a portion of the 512MB system ram for graphics processing.
The specs say that mac mini's come standard with ati r9200 with 32mb
*dedicated* ram for graphics so you should have no problems. In
general a dedicated ati or nvidia chip has more opengl capabilities
than embedded intel or sis graphics chips. A $50 upgrade to 512MB
would help tremendously however.
Hope that helps, Sabuj Pattanayek
Luca Fenu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm thinking of buying a Mac mini to use as minimal computer for
> home, and will need it to run pymol smoothly. is this the case, or
> the little machine doesn't have enough juice to handle, let's say,
> visualisation of a protein active site and ligand docked into it,
> with different level of transparence and such? I need pymol
> essentially to look at my structure and generate pretty pictures
> for my phD thesis... many thanks to anyone can give insights...
>
> luca
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