Luca, I've been using a eMac with similar specs to the MacMini and it works fine. The only major change I see between the G5 in my lab and the eMac at home is the surface calculations and ray tracing. For what you want, my guess is it will be fine.
Dan -- Dr. Daniel Moriarty Siena College Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept. 515 Loudon Road Loudonville, NY 12211 (518) 783-2472 fax: (518) 276-4887 > From: Luca Fenu <l.a.f...@soton.ac.uk> > Organization: university of southampton > Reply-To: <l.a.f...@soton.ac.uk> > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:24:32 +0000 > To: <pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [PyMOL] Pymol on MacMini: performances > > 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 > -- > S for stupendous! T for Tiger, ferocity of! U for Underwear, red! P for > Power, incredible! E for Excellent physique! N for ...um... something... > hmm, well I'll come back to that... D for Determination! U.. for... > wait, how do you spell this? Is it 'I'? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users
