Thanks everyone for putting thought into this. I think I have some
leads now.
You're the best!
Owain
On 27/01/2021 19:45, Marc Loftus wrote:
Yeah the killer is the ram and processor then.
Look at atleast 8GB Ram and i5 processor. My sister recently upgraded
from a similar level as your son and on a budget. The i5 to her feels
like its on steroids now and she lives it.
If you have a budget of around £600 you should be able to do ok and
should be able to get something with an SSD which also helps
massively. CurrysPC World and John Lewis have filters for searches to
help you choose from a few rather than dozens
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, 10:05 Owain, <simb...@cooptel.net
<mailto:simb...@cooptel.net>> wrote:
Thanks both for giving me some ideas to work with - I'll see what
J-Lo do.
He currently has a Lenovo ideapad 510, which has a i3 processor
(2.3GHz) and 4G ram. Having spoken to him more the problem seems
to be not just with matlab, though the way he's using that is
memory intensive, as it reports using 70ish % of memory even just
with Firefox (2 tabs open) and the task manager running. I know
it would run much faster with Linux but that's not an option at
present. The Surface Pro looks nice but a little pricey, so if
anyone has a suggestion of something a bit cheaper I would be
grateful.
Owain
On 26/01/2021 17:26, Marc Loftus via Hampshire wrote:
I use a Microsoft Surface Pro 7. I got the i7 processor and 16G
of ram. I use it to run some memory intensive programs and run
virtual box with several vagrant VMs running Ansible with a 3tier
application stack.
What has he currently got and where are the bottle neck? Is
Matlab memory/processor/IO intensive?
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, 16:22 Roger Munford via Hampshire,
<hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
<mailto:hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
It may sound a bit old fashioned but you could try John
Lewis. At least
in the recent past they did train their sales staff.
They may not thank me for suggesting this but we have had
excellent
service from Rocket Repairs in Southampton. I would recommend
them
highly for their repair service but they might be happy to
advise based
on their experience.
Regards
Roger
On 26/01/2021 14:53, Owain via Hampshire wrote:
> Afternoon.
>
> I wonder if anyone could give me some advice? My son is in
the last
> leg of his chemistry degree and finding that his laptop is
not up to
> the statistically heavy Matlab calculations he has to do,
so he wants
> a higher spec laptop. In the past I have used PC World and
the like
> with both of my sons and been amazed with the disappointing
performance.
>
> So where is a good place to go to have knowledgeable but
> non-patronising service? He wants a Windows machine, but I
am hoping
> to inherit the old one myself, and install a grown-up
operating system
> on it.
>
> Thanks for any tips
>
> Owain
>
> https://tantmusic.com
>
>
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