[Bf-committers] Minimal Blender specs - 5 year old systems & OS

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Dan,

Tablets are all multicore and have OpenGL ES 2 or 3, which is quite modern compared to what we use now.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
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On 29 Jan, 2013, at 15:06, Dan Eicher wrote:

> IDK, I think a lot of users get hand-me-downs and there seems to be a trend
> of lower power (energy efficient) computer being made these days. Not to
> mention if blender ever gets fully ported to tablet-like devices.
> 
> It might be better to target OS versions rather than hardware specs since
> computers haven't really advanced that much over the last five years other
> than throwing more cores at the problem. Something produced five years ago
> can still do 99% of what the average user needs and this target audience is
> probably a lot bigger than the amount of people that can plunk $1k down on
> a upscale box.
> 
> As an aside, both of my working computers (a netbook & 5+ year old laptop)
> don't fall within these specs and aren't really good at *using* blender but
> are still good for testing.
> 
> Dan
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