Hi all, I propose to update the minimal spec for hardware on the Blender site. This was getting very ancient now.
Old: 1 GHZ Single Core CPU 512 MB RAM 1024 x 768 px Display with 16 bit color 3 Button Mouse OpenGL Graphics Card with 64 MB RAM New: 32 bits, Dual Core CPU with at least 2 GHZ. 2 GB RAM 24 bits 1280x800 display Mouse or trackpad OpenGL Graphics Card with 512 MB RAM I really like it when Blender runs well on any OS and older computers. There's practical limits we need to cope with though: - Support for old systems is impossible without any developer using it. - There's demand for good support of modern hardware specs. As rule-of-thumb we could define our minimal support level as "Decent quality new hardware and OS you would purchase 5 years ago for 1000 dollar". If we can keep that work, systems with less specs might work, or not... but that would be in the unsupported category - unless a volunteer steps in to maintain it well. It also means that we could drop Windows XP this year, Vista was released 5 years ago. For OSX we failed keep 10.5 work (october 2007). Also for PPC that's not possible anymore afaik. OSX 10.6 is quite recent (june 2009), but the current minimum we can support. If an OSX 10.5 user/developer steps in, feel welcome! -Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
