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Re: Mathematica 7 on an Asus Eee PC Laptop?

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• Subject: [mg95371] Re: Mathematica 7 on an Asus Eee PC Laptop?
• From: Norbert Marxer <marxer at mec.li>
• Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:26:42 -0500 (EST)
• References: <gkh0ut$6ha$1@smc.vnet.net> <gkkevu$gm4$1@smc.vnet.net>

On 15 Jan., 12:09, Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gull... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> In article <gkkevu$gm... at smc.vnet.net>, andy... at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried running Mathematica 7 on an Asus Eee PC Laptop under
> > > Linux?
>
> > hi, I have a eeePC900 with eeebuntu (the last one), and Mathematica
> > run perfectly...
>
> Hi Andrea,
>
> Just out of curiosity, have you run the benchmarks that come with
> Mathematica on the netbook? If so, could you, please, report the results
> and perhaps write a line or two about your overall experience with the
> system.
>
> I am asking because I was wondering whether a netbook + a CAS
> (commercial or open source) could be a suitable replacement of a laptop
> in classroom setting (e.g. doing interactive presentations with some
> real-time computations or plots of simple expressions or models).
>
> Best regards,
> --Jean-Marc

Hello

I tested Mathematica for Students 7.0.0 on an ASUS EeePC and got 0.31
for the Mathematica benchmark.

For most situations this should be ok in a classroom setting.

But I would prefer a larger than 10'' monitor.

Best Regards
Norbert Marxer

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