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by stannol 3595 days ago
> I wonder what kinds of devices this is intended for? Presumably, they are a very important market for Qt to have implemented this? And these devices have graphics displays but they lack GPUs? What device could that be?

Unfortunately many (mostly Intel) chipsets have terrible drivers and have been blacklisted in Qt 4.6. So if you want to target a large share of all desktop machines the software renderer is a must.