Will it work on a Mac running Vista?

Hi All,
I am wondering, will the new designer work well on a MacBook Pro running Vista?
If yes, will there be any drawback by the Mac hardware compared to a “good” PC laptop?
Here are the specs;

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor with dual-link DVI support and 512MB of GDDR3 memory

2.5GHz or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed

2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 memory

Thanks,

Gal

hi, The MacBook Pro spec is good, Bootcamp supports Vista natively, making it equal to Vista on anything else.

We haven’t tested Touch with Vista much though. We know Horizontal Span doesn’t work on Vista, and may not for a long time according to NVIDIA. So Touch on Vista mat have some Vista-unique problems but Derivative will eliminate most of them over the next 6 months or so. Other users may have better insight.

greg

Thanks Greg,
Touch will be the only windows software on the laptop, so having XP instead is not a problem.
My concern is mainly for the hardware performance compared to PC laptops within the same price range, and making sure Touch will have all it needs to perform really well.
Best,
Gal

Yes, the MacBook laptops with Nvidia gfx cards are very capable for running TouchDesigner. Try to get the one with 512MB gfx memory. If you are only running Windows for Touch, then we do recommend Windows XP which lets you run external monitors in Horizontal Span mode, giving you maximum performance across multiple monitors.

Tip: A 3 button mouse will be your best friend with these single-button trackpad machines.

on to pof ben’s reccomendation, make sure the mouse has a scroll wheel for zooming goodness! :slight_smile:

It is seriously one of the lovely aspects of Touch’s new interface.

Rod.