[Paraview] Picking laptop hardware for significant use with VTK and ParaView

[Weirs, V Gregory]

I have a MacBook Pro 15", about a year and a half old, running Tiger. No special drivers to install or anything like that. Output to second display works out of the box, whether a projector or monitor. It's fabulous.

The Mac build of Paraview works fine, I sometimes build from the cvs trunk and don't have any Mac-specific problems. The Mac install is problematic so I just run out of the build directory; but I know a lot of effort is going into that and I expect it will all be fixed it in 3.4 or soon after.

Greg


On 4/17/08 10:01 AM, "Dan Goldstein" <dan at cora.nwra.com> wrote:

Hi,
   Can I get some quick feedback on how ParaView and VTK is running
on the MacBook Pro laptops? Is opengl hardware acceleration with the
Nvidia  GPU and current Apple drivers all working? I am getting ready to
buy one and I just want to make sure, since one of my primary uses will
be ParaView visualization of CFD results.
ParaView never did correctly use the hardware in my last trusty laptop
(Dell M50) ,although it does have a good Nvidia chip set.  (Not
complaining, I just want to make sure I get a working hardware/driver
combo this time..)

   Thanks for any feedback.

Dan Goldstein
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