Hi Mike, Please note that the original question was about the new *MacBook* (which has an integrated graphics chip) NOT the MacBook Pro (which comes with a dedicated ATI accelerator, which is quite fast).
Mike Summers wrote: > Marc, > > Pymol on a macbook pro is unbelievably fast. You can rotate > the ribosome in real time. > > Mike > > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:24:02AM +0200, Marc Saric wrote: > >>>I'm very interested in knowing whether PyMOL is usable on the new >>>MacBook considering that it has Intel integrated graphics. >> >>Concerning integrated graphics: The Aqua-Desktop should be accelerated >>on a MacBook as well, so hardware-OpenGL is there. If you are not >>planning to visualize a ribosome or virus-structure, it should work. The >>integrated graphics of the latest Intel-chipset can be compared to an >>older mid-range-accelerator (lets say from 2-3 years ago or so). Given >>that the CPU is pretty fast, this should still give you quite good >>performance. >> >>I haven't seen a MacBook with Pymol in action though. -- Bye, Marc Saric http://www.marcsaric.de
