I am possibly in the market for a new laptop. Predominantly a Windows user, I owned a macbook pro 10 years ago and am considering going that route again. Does the standard advice still hold: Get the most powerful processor (i7), most ram (16GB), and largest internal storage (512GB), if affordable? thanks, dan
What does this have to do with R? Does the answer not depend on what you intend to do with your laptop, e.g the sorts of data you deal with, of which we have no idea? Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." Clifford Stoll On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Dan Murphy <chiefmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:> I am possibly in the market for a new laptop. Predominantly a Windows > user, I owned a macbook pro 10 years ago and am considering going that > route again. Does the standard advice still hold: Get the most > powerful processor (i7), most ram (16GB), and largest internal storage > (512GB), if affordable? > thanks, > dan > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
For what I do, which does not require a lot of parallel work, the high end iMac was faster and much less expensive than the Mac Pro. Mark R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D. msharp at TxBiomed.org> On Feb 25, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Dan Murphy <chiefmurphy at gmail.com> wrote: > > I am possibly in the market for a new laptop. Predominantly a Windows > user, I owned a macbook pro 10 years ago and am considering going that > route again. Does the standard advice still hold: Get the most > powerful processor (i7), most ram (16GB), and largest internal storage > (512GB), if affordable? > thanks, > dan > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.NOTICE: This E-Mail (including attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C.2510-2521. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received this message in error, then delete it.
Hi, It is not so efficient to have the most speed processor or biggest RAM. In general One processor is working at the time. It is more interesting to work with Linux for multiple multi_thread package and 64 bit. I am not sure if turbo boost is working with R. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395309/how-to-make-r-use-all-processors On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Mark Sharp <msharp at txbiomed.org> wrote:> For what I do, which does not require a lot of parallel work, the high end > iMac was faster and much less expensive than the Mac Pro. > > Mark > R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D. > msharp at TxBiomed.org > > > > > > > On Feb 25, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Dan Murphy <chiefmurphy at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am possibly in the market for a new laptop. Predominantly a Windows > > user, I owned a macbook pro 10 years ago and am considering going that > > route again. Does the standard advice still hold: Get the most > > powerful processor (i7), most ram (16GB), and largest internal storage > > (512GB), if affordable? > > thanks, > > dan > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > NOTICE: This E-Mail (including attachments) is confidential and may be > legally privileged. It is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy > Act, 18 U.S.C.2510-2521. If you are not the intended recipient, you are > hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying > of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender > that you have received this message in error, then delete it. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Dan, FWIW, I have basically the system you describe, except a larger HD ? I'm quite happy, but I'm a biased Mac user, although I love my Ubuntu Linux machine as well? One can bring any machine to its knees, so there is the element of expectations. A MacBook Pro stacks up as well or better compared to a similarly configured windows box. The thing is, IMO, there are at least two very good virtual machines to run MS-Windows on if the need arises (as well as Apple's 'Boot Camp') and, I believe, since the core Mac OS is essentially UNIX/Linux you have all that capability natively as well. Tom On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Dan Murphy <chiefmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:> I am possibly in the market for a new laptop. Predominantly a Windows > user, I owned a macbook pro 10 years ago and am considering going that > route again. Does the standard advice still hold: Get the most > powerful processor (i7), most ram (16GB), and largest internal storage > (512GB), if affordable? > thanks, > dan > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]