Re: [PyMOL] Pymol on MacMini: performances

[Sabuj P. <sab...@va...>]

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