Intel HD graphics and Rendering

Hi everyone!

I was trying to speed up rendering in Blender when I found out about using the GPU instead of the CPU. So, I went to the user preferences -> System -> Compute Device

But, there isn’t anything there except for “NONE” and “CPU”

I have an IBM Thinkpad EDGE with Intel HD Graphics (Windows 7 and Fedora 17) but neither seems to allow me to switch over to my GPU, everything else works perfectly though, I was just looking for a way to speed up rendering on my laptop until I get my PC.

Your current GPU does not meet minimum requirements for accelerating cycles rendering.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/GPU_Rendering

So, what you mean is that I can’t accelerate rendering? I think so but just to make sure

So, that means that there is no way whatsoever to increase rendering speeds for me? or anyway to be able to use my GPU?

CPU rendering only