On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:02:24 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2013 3:13 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:12:46 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>
>> The thing for Blender is if you use the Cycles rendering engine, you'll
>> want an nVidia higher-end GPU, which will add to the cost.
> 
> I don't I use the internal renderer. Then Export a mesh and render in
> PovRay. So I think that I will get away without worrying about that. I
> hope. :-)

Cycles is a pretty nice renderer, though - definitely worth a look.  But 
yeah, exporting to POVRay is also a good option - there is (or used to 
be) a POVRay export tool, in fact, but I think it was for 3.5.

>> What I currently use as a laptop is what I bought 2 years ago - a Dell
>> N7110 laptop.  8 GB of memory, i7 CPU, integrated Intel graphics.  Gets
>> the job done, and is even better than the newer desktop I have (8 cores
>> rather than 4).  But it does weigh like a laptop, too.
>>
>>
> For Dell read Toshiba and that is me.
> The machine needs a spring clean possibly a re-install of all my
> applications and a clean up of the services and processes I do not use.
> Sigh!

:)

Jim

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