Hi Wataru: Great to hear from you. It will work with any computer that has a VGA or DVI-compatible port for an external monitor. My iMac has one. I don't have a Mac Pro, but I assume it also has this, since every other Mac I have ever seen does. The main point is that it works even with the low-end computers (which is all I can afford).
You should be able to get it for about $US 300. I hope all is well. Bill On Thu, July 30, 2009 6:30 pm, Wataru Kagawa wrote: > Hi Bill: > > I am excited to hear that Coot works in stereo using the combination > of the Zalman LCD display and Mac mini/iBook. > Is it possible to the same thing with a Mac Pro or an iMac (Intel)? > > Thanks. > > Wataru Kagawa > > On 2009/07/29, at 16:08, William G. Scott wrote: > >> Yo people: >> >> Following Warren DeLano's recommendations at pymol.org/zalman, I got >> a Zalman monitor for about $US 300, which, in California dollars, is >> about a week's worth of groceries at our local rat-infested Safeway. >> >> The latest PyMOL and Coot both work great in stereo. I would go so >> far as to say these look as good as they did on my ca. $12K (1999 >> dollars) SGI R10000s with Sony trinatron monitors, which I finally >> got rid of earlier this year. Also, the quality of the migraine >> these induce seems to be a bit more tolerable. >> >> I found it worked fine with a Mac mini (the one my kids have >> connected to a TV to watch old Flintstones episodes), and also my >> wife's first generation iBook, the latter of which has no separate >> graphics card. So if you set it up with a mini, you can have a >> dedicated stereographics workstation with a reasonable quality >> monitor for under $1K (or just have a monitor and have your users >> bring their own laptop and a DVI connector. >> >> It comes with DVI and VGA cables, and 1 pair of normal and one pair >> of clip-on circularly polarized glasses, and enough styrofoam >> packing to get rid of the last remaining wisps of an evanescent >> ozone layer. >> >> Thanks to Paul (and Warren) for implementing this. >> >> Bill >> >> >> William G. Scott >> >> contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott > William G. Scott Contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/
