Blender on a netbook?

#1

I have a HP netbook I bought last summer (2009), and was thinking of putting Blender on it, mainly for the compositing module in Blender. I noticed on the minimum requirements page for Blender, they mention a screen resolution that the netbook isn’t capable of. That got me thinking about maybe other things that might hinder performance on there. I think it’s going to run fine, to be honest, but just thought I’d post to see if anyone was already running it on a recent netbook, and how it was working.

Thanks in advance!

#2

Using an Inspiron 11z with blender right now. I guess it doesn’t really qualify as a netbook. Its 11" widescreen. Apart from a few quirks from the intel GPU it runs like any regular desktop machine with an average pentium CPU. Well, I run Linux, so your mileage may be better. Windows tend to have better GPU drivers for Intel.

#3

I have blender 2.5 on my eee pc 1.8ghz 2gig ram windoz xp.
Runs fine, baking and rendering abit sloooow as expected.

#4

i got 2.49b running on my samsung nc10 , runs ok for modeling.

#5

I got both 2.49b and 2.53beta on my toshiba 11g or something(1,5ghz + 1gb ram, 11" widescreen). It’s kinda slow, but ok for low rez modeling.

-thondal-

#6

Thanks for all the replies, everyone! :slight_smile:

#7

blender 2.53 beta on my acer Aspire one AOA150,
mostly low-poly modeling, and level editing for game graphics, mind you. :slight_smile:

oh, and for future reference:
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/requirements/

#8

oh, and for future reference:
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/requirements/

Yeah, I had seen those, which is actually why I posted. A netboook obviously doesn’t have the graphic card or display resolution mentioned in there, so I was wondering how it would perform, regardless. I’m glad to hear it works for everyone, and will be trying it out myself on mine. :slight_smile:

#9

note that as far as minimum resolution goes, i believe the focus is on horizontal resolution.

 and most netbooks have at least an intel video, but it depends on the manufacturer

as to if its possible to assign more than 8 mb of system ram to video.

still got to say, if you want a netbook thats good for graphics work,
I’d say one of the following two would probably be best fit:

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=HrglRhH8D60Rmlv3 (2? gb ram, nvidia ion)
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=ls15lhnDPup9y6Uh (2gb ram, ati HD3200)

both come with a 12.1" 1366x768 display.

#10

Can one still call those “netbooks”? I struggled with myself before getting an 11" as I wanted portability (something to replace an ipod … but can do more). I tend to associate size with the name. I would have picked a 10" if I found one with Pentium chip

#11

I don’t see why not, there used to be small notebooks made in '90s with 13" being then a relatively big screen size I suppose, but nowadays, the smallest notebook display size I’ve seen at least, is 15.1" anything less seems to be considered sub-notebook, of which anything with a price point close to or lower than $500 is apparently a netbook, then. :slight_smile:

heres a newegg page for a dualcore atom 2gb mem nvidia-ion for $500,
so it’s a netbook, I suppose, at least according to my understanding. :slight_smile:

#12

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