Noob asks: Will Blender run on my new Tablet PC?

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Just purchased a Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC to illustrate and animate on. Drawing right (write) on the screen is much more intuitive than using a wacom tablet. Anyway, I want to try to use Blender’s cel-shading to illustrate a comic strip. Anyone think it’s possible to run Blender on this relatively underpowered computer?

Specs:
-2.13GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB Pentium M 770
-2 gigs RAM (1024MB (x2) 533MHz PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM)
-14.1" Diagonal SXGA+ (1400 x 1050) display
-NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6600 TE with 128MB DDR SDRAM (soldered onto motherboard - not upgradable)
-60GB HD

If not, any suggestions on less demanding 3D apps?

thanks,
jp smith

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NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6600 TE

This is the important part.

You should be more than okay.

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With the NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6600 TE and 2GB of ram, you have more than enough specs to run Blender properly. Jeez, that tablet must have cost a fortune, I guess.

In no way that tablet is underpowered , if you are thinking about processor speed. Its decent enough to run all applications. Its the graphics card and little of memory that really counts with processors over 2Ghz speed.

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Good news.
Honestly, I was only paying attention to the GeForce’s 2D abilities when I purchased the computer (layered print rez graphics get big fast), so it’s good to hear that 3D will ba an option.
Thanks guys.

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It’ll work beautifully: I’m speaking from experience.
You will need to get a keyboard with a number pad, and a three button mouse.

Two other things:
-When you get the tablet, take the time to shut-down and disable some of the extra programs and services.

-If you can, get another monitor. Two are nicer to work with than one.

Oh, and don’t forget to make the recovery discs :smiley: