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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 :-)


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