Learning Rhino / Grasshopper on Intel Celeron with integrated video?

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Hello,

Due to some reasons, I am going to use Intel Celeron N4500 or N4000 with Intel UHD Graphics 600.
I read the minimum requirements, but I wonder if the setup would be sufficent to play around with Grasshopper? I mean learning, writing some Python code and so on? I am not going to use it for complex modeling (unless playing with bridges and civil engineering is considered heavy comparing to cars/boats modeling). So, the question is, if the laptop would be capable of starting the software and doing some stuff, or the hardware makes it unusable?

I have way better laptop, but lets say its going to be unavaiable.

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If you have the hardware , give it a try. If you are looking to buys something with these specs. Don’t do it.

If you get lucky to be able to run rhino. I can guarantee you that it won’t be a pleasant experience.

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Thanks for the info.

So, which processor would be good enough? I am looking for something budget, since I am going to use it just for a few weeks.

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— Dale

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Thank you for the link.

Last questions:
Does the requirement of 4GB ram is for rendering purposes or overall usage of Rhino to display geometry etc?

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There was a discussion about a computer with almost exactly those specs very recently. We tried it, but it was pretty frustratingly slow. It all depends what you want to do. It does work though.

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Thank you very much for the link. It’s quite interesting.
Based on the topic, I have assumed that it would be possible to use a laptopt with that specs, just to learn and play with Grasshopper, instead of heavy modeling.

Correct me please if I am wrong, but the GPU is being used to calculate/generate the geometry or the whole process is CPU based?

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No–or…yes? depending on what you meant?–the GPU is used for drawing the polygons on the screen. All the work of making the NURBS that get converted to a mesh and shown on screen is CPU-based.

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It will be possible. If that machine is the only one you can get, then go for it.

Here you are saying though that you do civil engineering and bridges. I don’t think you can say that a car or boat is heavier (on the graphics card) than that. It depends. A detailed model of a bridge will be way heavier to draw than a car.

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@JimCarruthers
Thanks for the information, quite interesting :smiley:

@seltzdesign
Thanks for the clarification. I wanted something budget, since I am going to the hospital to a rehabilitation for a few weeks and I don’t know what conditions are in the rooms. I am a bit afraid of accidentaly droping my laptop, since I am limited with moving.

I guess, I am gonna wait till getting there and afterwards I decide to tell someone to bring my own laptop or buying a budget one.

So far, I am on sick leave and I am mostly learning and playing with the software. Honestly, the goal for the laptop would be to learn and to generate a part of a road or just a portion of the bridge, to test potential workflows.

Thank you all for the contributions :slight_smile:

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