Re: Re: Mathematica 7 on netbooks
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- Subject: [mg103168] Re: [mg103105] Re: [mg103083] Mathematica 7 on netbooks
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:47:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Many of us who would like to travel light yet still run Mathematica would like to learn results of benchmarks on netbooks -- from both the Benchmarking package's Benchmark[] and Karl Unterkofler's test notebook. Some additional timings involving rendering graphics would be useful, too. John Fultz wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 02:36:32 -0400 (EDT), Brus wrote: >> I'll buy a neetbook - Acer aspire One D250 (N270 1.6 Ghz, Xp home, 1 Gb >> ram). >> >> I need Mathematica 7 for student purposes in mathematics. >> >> Can a netbook run Mathematica 7 well? >> >> I need it for integral computing, graphic plots, solving system of >> equations. >> >> Is someone running Mathematica 7 with a netbook? >> >> Thanks > > I have an Asus Eeepc 901, and Mathematica 7 runs just fine. It's not zippy, > mind you. It is, after all, a fairly underpowered computer, and my expectations > of it are rather modest, so I rarely push it with my Mathematica usage. Not to > mention that I'm often running it on battery and I believe it's default mode > throttles down the CPU's max speed (I'm not certain of that, though...it just > hasn't mattered to me that much to confirm it). > > For doing "integral computing, graphic plots, solving systems of questions", > it'll probably be just fine, as long as the integrals, plots, and systems of > equations aren't super-sized. > > Sincerely, > > John Fultz > jfultz at wolfram.com > User Interface Group > Wolfram Research, Inc. > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Re: Mathematica 7 on netbooks
- From: John Fultz <jfultz@wolfram.com>
- Re: Mathematica 7 on netbooks