Given the price of the Thinkpad X201 I would be very upset if it overheated and would contact my supplier for a replacement. I also understand that this CPU may slow down if it is overheated. You would probably get a better performance from a desktop workstation or a larger laptop with better ventilation. As already stated a large mumer of cpu's and multithreading are of little advantage when you are running standard R.
John On 13 May 2011 11:38, Michael Haenlein <haenl...@escpeurope.eu> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm currently running R on my laptop -- a Lenovo Thinkpad X201 (Intel Core > i7 CPU, M620, 2.67 Ghz, 8 GB RAM). The problem is that some of my > calculations run for several days sometimes even weeks (mainly simulations > over a large parameter space). Depending on the external conditions, my > laptop sometimes shuts down due to overheating. > > I'm now thinking about buying a more powerful desktop PC or laptop. Can > anybody advise me on the best configuration to run R as fast as possible? I > will use this PC exclusively for R so any other factors are of limited > importance. > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > Michael Haenlein > Assocaite Professor of Marketing > ESCP Europe > Paris, France > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- John C Frain Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
