Blender on a laptop?
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Blender on a laptop?
Hi,
Can Blender be used on a laptop? Is there anything special that I should look for in a laptop if I'm going to use if for creating with Blender, Python, etc?
Just Curious!
Can Blender be used on a laptop? Is there anything special that I should look for in a laptop if I'm going to use if for creating with Blender, Python, etc?
Just Curious!
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Works great on Eurocom 888ES
Got a Eurocom 888ES with a 16.1-inch SXGA (1280x1024) Active Matrix Display, 512 MB RAM,ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 and running 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 processor- They call it the dream machine and Blender works great on it (all version)
danifou

danifou
This is what I've done
beforre buying my laptop, got Blender burned on a CD with a few files from the guide CD and tried out a demo laptop from Eurocom. Since Blender can be executed from a CD without being installed on the machine, I've had the opportunity to test and see Blender performed on the laptop.
danifou
danifou
if you're testing a laptop, grab blender 2.25 and a game file to test the 3d acceleration, thats the first thing i do whenever setting up a new machine for blender.
or maybe just one of the runtime files form blender3d.org
a while back i was running linux on a machine with an ati card and the acceleration only worked well with the runtimes, not when playing the game inside blender (i THINK it was the dynamic version)
or maybe just one of the runtime files form blender3d.org
a while back i was running linux on a machine with an ati card and the acceleration only worked well with the runtimes, not when playing the game inside blender (i THINK it was the dynamic version)
I'm now running blender on a Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz / ATI Radeon mobility 9600. Runs fine, except for a slight problem in displaying the AA fonts (presumably a driver issue) and the lack of support for OpenGL antialiased polygons (also presumable a driver issue).
A feature that may be useful to know is the 'Emulate NumPad' user preference, which lets you use the top row of number keys as if it was the numeric keypad on a normal keyboard.
A feature that may be useful to know is the 'Emulate NumPad' user preference, which lets you use the top row of number keys as if it was the numeric keypad on a normal keyboard.
I'm running blender on the older version of this http://www.m-techlaptops.com/specificat ... ch5600.htm
Its a big, heavy workhorse and the new version has even better 3d than mine (I only have a lowly radeon 7500 -sob-) Its a fairly generic machine made by clevo, you can find it in europe under the promedion brand, in us under m-tech, prostar, sager, alienware (m-51- expensive), etc. I got mine from m-tech 'cuz they sell it without an OS and I run linux. (no experience with linux drivers and the newer radeon, my older one runs fine)
Its a big, heavy workhorse and the new version has even better 3d than mine (I only have a lowly radeon 7500 -sob-) Its a fairly generic machine made by clevo, you can find it in europe under the promedion brand, in us under m-tech, prostar, sager, alienware (m-51- expensive), etc. I got mine from m-tech 'cuz they sell it without an OS and I run linux. (no experience with linux drivers and the newer radeon, my older one runs fine)
Re: Blender on a laptop?
Runs great on my old Dell Notebook (P4-1.3/512). In fact, we've been running all the Blender presentation animations on this thing for the last two years without a hitch!Curious wrote:Hi,
Can Blender be used on a laptop? Is there anything special that I should look for in a laptop if I'm going to use if for creating with Blender, Python, etc?
Just Curious!
I've recently bought a Promedion D500P with a ATI mobility radeon 9600. So far Blender 2.28 runs like a charm (I just use the drivers that came with the machine).
The Promedion is sold in many countries under different brand-names, such as eurocom, sager, etc. The manufacturer of this machine is clevo (www.clevo.com.tw).
Greetz,
Erwin
The Promedion is sold in many countries under different brand-names, such as eurocom, sager, etc. The manufacturer of this machine is clevo (www.clevo.com.tw).
Greetz,
Erwin