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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Greg<BR>
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On 4/17/08 10:01 AM, "Dan Goldstein" <dan@cora.nwra.com> wrote:<BR>
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Can I get some quick feedback on how ParaView and VTK is running<BR>
on the MacBook Pro laptops? Is opengl hardware acceleration with the<BR>
Nvidia GPU and current Apple drivers all working? I am getting ready to<BR>
buy one and I just want to make sure, since one of my primary uses will<BR>
be ParaView visualization of CFD results.<BR>
ParaView never did correctly use the hardware in my last trusty laptop<BR>
(Dell M50) ,although it does have a good Nvidia chip set. (Not<BR>
complaining, I just want to make sure I get a working hardware/driver<BR>
combo this time..)<BR>
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Thanks for any feedback.<BR>
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Dan Goldstein<BR>
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