This is a quick tip I found on Blender Nation.
Month: October 2014
Novel Idea for a Laptop Upgrade
A significant number of people in the forum ask how to run Second Life™ on a laptop that has ample memory and CPU power but lacks adequate GPU power. The answer is disappointing, your hardware is not gonna cut it.
Now I find there is a way to add a PCI graphics card to a laptop. It isn’t pretty but, apparently it works.
Check this out: EXP GDC Laptop External PCI-E Graphics Card. You could add a GTX980 to a 4 year old laptop.
I am not endorsing the product. You are on our own deciding if this is for you. I am just pointing out a possibility.
AvaStar Next Steps
Gaia Clary is asking what they concentrate their efforts on in regard to the AvaStar program. See: Decide about the Future of Avastar and vote for your choice.
Ebbe Tweet on NYC
Second Life News 2014-43 #2
This Friday was the Third Party Developer’s Meeting. Oz Linden and other Lindens spoke for about 26 minutes telling us what was coming and where things are in the release pipeline.
Viewer
Today the main viewer remains 3.7.18-295539.
RC Viewers
Friday saw the Lindens putting out a new Benchmark and HTTP RC Viewers.
Benchmark Viewer version 3.7.19.295759 – This is the viewer that does away with the GPU Table. Note, Today (10/25) the Alternate Viewers page is showing this as a new RC and an older version as a Project Viewer. Get the newer one. It has all the updates from the default viewer.
Magic Leap?
Everyone is trying to figure out what it is Magic Leap is proposing. This video may give us a clue.
Imagine sitting down at this bus stop and seeing: