> > The OpenGL performance is rather poor on intel HD chips up to and > including the HD 4600 but with the appearance of HD 5000 series (Iris HD) > the Cinebench OpenGL score increased dramatically and even challenges many > nvidia cards in performance. With these kind of intel chips you should be > able to run Coot and Pymol smoothly and operate a passive 3D screen without > problems. >
I beg to differ too. My experience with Coot running on both HD 4000 and 5000 series couldn't be better. In fact, I generally switch to HD4000 on my Macbook Pro every time I load Coot, because the slight difference in performance doesn't justify the massive increase in both temperature and power consumption. Presentation software like CCP4mg or pymol are much more resource-hungry than Coot, and still the HD series hold themselves up quite decently. Jon -- Dr Jon Agirre York Structural Biology Laboratory / Department of Chemistry University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, York, England http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/research/ysbl/people/research/jagirre/ +44 (0) 1904 32 8253
