Hi Dan, Tablets are all multicore and have OpenGL ES 2 or 3, which is quite modern compared to what we use now.
-Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 29 Jan, 2013, at 15:06, Dan Eicher wrote: > IDK, I think a lot of users get hand-me-downs and there seems to be a trend > of lower power (energy efficient) computer being made these days. Not to > mention if blender ever gets fully ported to tablet-like devices. > > It might be better to target OS versions rather than hardware specs since > computers haven't really advanced that much over the last five years other > than throwing more cores at the problem. Something produced five years ago > can still do 99% of what the average user needs and this target audience is > probably a lot bigger than the amount of people that can plunk $1k down on > a upscale box. > > As an aside, both of my working computers (a netbook & 5+ year old laptop) > don't fall within these specs and aren't really good at *using* blender but > are still good for testing. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
