Dear Luca,
I own a current G4 iBook, and the Mac mini is in principle an iBook in
cubuoid form (but without display and keyboard). I don't know how
demanding your pymol sessions are, but I'm quite happy with the MacPyMOL
version on my iBook, which seems to be subjectively a little bit faster
than the X11 version (via fink). Make sure that you have enough memory
(at least 512 MB), otherwise this will be the bottleneck. Maybe, you
find among your colleages somebody who owns an iBook and try your pymol
tasks there?
Best regards,
Dirk Kostrewa.
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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