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

[Dan Goldstein]

Thanks for the info Greg. Have you tried volume visualization in 
Paraview? Does it seem to use the hardware correctly?

Thanks

Dan

Weirs, V Gregory wrote:
> 
> 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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