Hello Paula,
As I remember HKL2000 requires 900 pixels in its running window's vertical
resolution - otherwise it won't run. Although you can set the virtual
desktop
resolution greater than your screen's physical pixel number to make HKL2000
running on a smaller screen, it would a be more comfortable solution if you
choose a high-res LCD laptop. My thinkpad T60 has a 15" 1400x1050 screen
(but the 15" model is heavy). With the 14 inch modlel thinkpad T400, if you
choose WXGA+, you get 1440x900. I am almost sure that the LCD manufacturers
also supply these kind of screens to other laptop makers.
Other components on current laptops should all be more than enough for the
computational needs for commonly used crystallography softwares. (3 years
ago my laptop has already outperformed our labs Pentium4 desktops.) But if
you would like to watch smoothly rendered surfaces in real time, better
choose a model with an nVidia or ATI chip inside.
Zhijie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Salgado, Paula" <p.salg...@imperial.ac.uk>
To: <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:05 AM
Subject: [ccp4bb] advice on laptop for crystallography
Dear all
I'm planning to upgrade my laptop and would like to run most
crystallography programs. I was wondering if people could comment on their
current prefered options. I would prefer not to go for a Mac, so any other
alternative suggestions would be more than welcome.
Also, I did a little research and it seems few laptops could deal with the
resolution requirements for HKL2000 - any thoughts on that as well?
Thanks in advance for all the help.
Paula
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