Dear Jeff and Phil,
>While well knowing that laptops are generally not the best option for
>imaging work, I'm curious to hear of any success stories from list
>members who have run analyses from a laptop. Aside from maxing out the
>RAM (2GB), having a fast processor (2Ghz), and at least 100GB of
>storage, what else would one need? Is any particular laptop brand
>better than others for imaging work?
>
Our Dell XPS (Pentium M 2.1 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 256 MB Video RAM) runs Matlab
and SPMs under SuSE Linux OS very fast. It beats most of our fast
Pentium IV PCs.
>Also, does anyone know if Matlab has difficulties running on Intel's Duo
>processor, which I believe is a 64bit setup? Any processors to avoid?
>
>
As Phil said, it is not a 64-bit CPU. But its chip architecture is
based on the Pentium M
technology which runs applications fast and doubled with 2 cores to be a
multi-CPU system.
> I am not sure what is the best linux supported core duo laptop right
> now, you will have to wait for another answer.
Generally, Linux has no problem with a multi-CPU system and gains most
from it.
It sees a dual-core 64-bit AMD CPU as a SMP system.
To speed up modern Matlab applications, you can even try the unsupported
(yet)
multi-thread option before running Matlab. If it does not crash, it can
speed up
linear algebraic operations.
Cheers,
Witaya Sungkarat
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