Hi, I can run pymol smoothly on my celeron-m 1.3ghz laptop with intel i855gmch embedded graphics chip. This has no dedicated memory and uses a portion of the 512MB system ram for graphics processing.
The specs say that mac mini's come standard with ati r9200 with 32mb *dedicated* ram for graphics so you should have no problems. In general a dedicated ati or nvidia chip has more opengl capabilities than embedded intel or sis graphics chips. A $50 upgrade to 512MB would help tremendously however. Hope that helps, Sabuj Pattanayek Luca Fenu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm thinking of buying a Mac mini to use as minimal computer for home, > and will need it to run pymol smoothly. is this the case, or the little > machine doesn't have enough juice to handle, let's say, visualisation of > a protein active site and ligand docked into it, with different level of > transparence and such? I need pymol essentially to look at my structure > and generate pretty pictures for my phD thesis... many thanks to anyone > can give insights... > > luca
