Hello James. On Wednesday, 27 January, 2021, you wrote > The CPU speed is probably not going to make much > difference for MATLAB, because the disk will be > the limiting factor.
I would be careful about making that assertion without knowing the size of datasets in use. Some statistical routines are highly processor- intensive, and anything that needs the data sorted will benefit from more cores. Of course, you do need enough memory. 4GBytes is tight, and I'd agree with using 16GBytes or more. > The GPU is probably not important, but if you > ever wish to install Linux on it, I would avoid > NVIDIA GPUs. Go for AMD or Intel graphics on > the laptop. That depends on the job. The MathWorks site states that Matlab can use Nvidia cards for computation, which may be relevant for Owain's son. Nick. -- Nick Chalk ................. once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
