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

Tom M letterrip at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 19:37:43 CET 2013


Ton,

realize that we are used by schools both in the US and worldwide, and
we are used in many poor countries.  XP is still fairly widely used
and provides supperior performance for Blender compared to Vista.
Also, Windows 7 has only recently (September) passed XP in
marketshare, and XP is still far ahead of Vista in marketshare, and
Windows 8 marketshare is nonexistant.

"Windows 8 gained a solid 0.68 percentage points (from 0.41 percent to
1.09 percent) while Windows 7 gained just 0.02 percentage points (from
44.69 percent to 44.71 percent). Windows Vista meanwhile slipped 0.10
percentage points (from 5.80 percent to 5.70 percent) and Windows XP
fell a huge 0.84 percentage points (from 40.66 percent to 39.82
percent)."

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/01/02/windows-gains-market-share-after-six-months-of-decline-windows-8-grabs-1-77-windows-7-passes-45/

Also 'light' and old workstations and laptops - while not well suited
for heavy compositing, simulating, or rendering,  work fine for most
tasks including modeling, uv mapping, most texturing tasks, etc.  Our
userbase is primarily the modeling and uv mapping, with other tasks
being far less common.

It is fine to have recommended specs that are recent, even to have
older specs not mentioned as supported, but it would be a very
questionable move to actively prevent usage on older hardware and
OSes.

LetterRip


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