[Bf-committers] Participating in GSOC

[Mike Erwin]

Hi Daniel,

Welcome!

It depends on what model laptop you have. Anything Intel HD 4000 or newer
is capable for Blender work, same is true for any AMD APU.

For example on the 2012 MacBook Pro switching to the Intel HD 4000 gives
about half the performance of the built-in nVidia GPU, but nothing is
broken or blocked.

Mike Erwin
musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Daniel McNeela <daniel.mcneela at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> My name is Daniel McNeela, and I'm a rising senior at the University of
> California, Berkeley studying applied mathematics and computer science. I
> used Blender frequently in middle school and high school to learn about 3d
> graphics and animation, so I'm excited to learn more about its development.
>
> I have a couple of questions about contributing for anyone who's
> knowledgeable about the project.
>
> 1. I don't currently have access to a desktop machine, and I use my laptop
> for the majority of my coding work. As such, I don't have a dedicated
> graphics card, and I don't know if this will lead to issues with actually
> running Blender for testing purposes. Would this likely be a great
> impediment to contributing?
>
> 2. For projects, would you suggest I stick to the ones outlined on the
> project ideas page, or are proposals for other ideas welcomed as well?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Daniel
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