On Jun 15, 2005, at 9:13, Luca Fenu wrote:
I thought so, but couldn't be sure, as a lot depends on the quality of
the drivers... w/o Direct Rendering (ATI drivers sucks!), my ath64
laptop with R9700 only manages to give me some 4 fps... that makes it
all but unusable. so i was afraid to find myself in an even worst
situation... Hopefully, PyMol takes advantage of Altivec... I'll give
it a try. thanks again...
There's no Altivec in the G4 processor that drives the mac mini.
Apple has always had good graphics drivers, I wouldn't worry about
that. My iBook (whose hardware is very similar to the mini) has much
better PyMol performance than some of my Linux boxes whose hardware
(both CPU and graphics) is more powerful in theory.
However, nothing beats real-life experience. Pack PyMOL and your data
on a CD and go visit your nearest Apple vendor!
Konrad.
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