Re: Buying and running older version of Mathematica on a Netbook
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- Subject: [mg105670] Re: Buying and running older version of Mathematica on a Netbook
- From: magma <maderri2 at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:24:48 -0500 (EST)
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On Dec 14, 6:05 am, ipmover <mathmania... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello: > > Is it possible to buy a new copy of Mathematica 5.2 and run it on a > Netbook: > > Acer Single Atom processor, 1 GB Memory, 160GB HD. I am not going to > be doing any serious number crunching. > > I have been searching all over the internet, but don't find any older > versions of Mathematica for sale. > > TIA, > > Jess P You can run the latest version 7.1 on a netbook as well. For example on a Toshiba NB205 which uses Atom N280 at 1.66Ghz you get a benchmark of 0.31. Not bad considering that it is a cute little - pink - PC with 9 hours battery life that you can buy for (very) few hundreds bucks :-)