Oolite Bulletins

My girlfriend's son may be getting the 13" version of the new MacBook Pro for his birthday in a couple of months (£999).

Does anyone have one of these machines? How does Oolite run on it?

The main specs of the machine are:

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor

250GB 5400-rpm hard drive

NVIDIA GeForce 320M with 256MB DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

4GB memory

250GB 5400-rpm hard drive

13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display

1280 by 800 pixels

I haven't, but it's better specced than anything I've got... you shouldn't have any problems playing with full shaders & quite a few oxps when the owner's asleep!

I have an older 17" and it runs fine.

I'm on a 2.13GHz Macbook with 2GB of RAM and Oolite runs well with loads of OXPs and full shaders - it should go like a dream on that machine.

When I was a lad (and old Shep was a frog), on my thirteenth birthday (or was it my twelfth), I was overjoyed to receive a quality slipstick as a present. Wonderful little tool… ah, the memories. <wanders off, mumbling>

El Viejo wrote:

When I was a lad (and old Shep was a frog), on my thirteenth birthday (or was it my twelfth), I was overjoyed to receive a quality slipstick as a present. Wonderful little tool… ah, the memories. <wanders off, mumbling>

<Monty_Python_Yorkshireman_mode>Present? My god you were spoilt, I was given a brush to clean road wi' rather than 'aving t' lick it clean wi' tongue on my birthday. Slipstick! Luxury!</Monty_Python_Yorkshiremen_mode>

My 4-year-old MacBook Pro with 2 GHz Core Duo, 1.5 GB and ATI Radeon X1600 (128 MB) runs Oolite just fine. In pre-shader days the framerate was 100 practically continuously. With shaders the standard framerate is 50, except right next to heavily shaderified objects.

So I guess the girlfriend's son's new toy will be best friends with Oolite.

A slipstick.... is that another word for slideruler?

(I'm Dutch speaking so don't kill me for asking )

Rxke wrote:

A slipstick.... is that another word for slideruler?

Yep.