<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Yehuda,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> The mx230 graphics is slow, similar to Intel graphics but that is usable with Chimera. NotebookCheck says this about the mx230</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-MX230-Graphics-Card.382351.0.html" class="">https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-MX230-Graphics-Card.382351.0.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="align-justify" style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify; caret-color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: "helvetica neue", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "segoe ui", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 0px !important;"><b class="">Performance</b></p><p class="align-justify" style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: justify; caret-color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: "helvetica neue", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "segoe ui", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 0px !important;">Thanks to the newer Pascal architecture, the MX230 is significantly faster than the old <a href="https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-MX130-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.258054.0.html" target="_self" class="internal-link" style="color: rgb(138, 9, 26); text-decoration: none;">GeForce MX130 (Maxwell based).</a> Demanding games of 2019 run only in lowest resolution and detail settings and may stutter (e.g. Anno 1800 or Rage 2 ran with under 30fps in our benchmarks). Less demanding games like Overwatch, Fifa 19 or Rocket League, however, can be played in higher detail and resolution settings without stuttering (see benchmarks below).</p><div class="">Chimera looking at large data (500,000 atoms, or Gbyte density maps) is like a demanding video game, so this laptop would not be ideal for looking at large data sets, but would be fine for moderate size data. The CPU is a typical low power laptop CPU, again adequate for moderate size data.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 17, 2020, at 7:03 AM, Yehuda Halfon <<a href="mailto:yehuda.halfon@weizmann.ac.il" class="">yehuda.halfon@weizmann.ac.il</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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A friend of mine in my lab wants to buy a new laptop with mx230. Will it work fine with chimera and chimerax? </div>
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The cpu is i5-10210u and 8 GB of ram. </div>
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Thanks a lot, </div>
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Yehuda Halfon </div>
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