It completely depends on what sort of computations you do. That said, for the price range you are talking about I would focus on getting enough memory - perhaps 4 GB.
-M. Hampton On Nov 15, 5:13 pm, Mike Witt <mwg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm about to get a new desktop for home, and I wonder if there are any > suggestions on what type of fairly low end systems would be best at > running Sage. (I don't plan to spend more than $1,000 for box itself.) > > I have noticed that Sage actually runs faster on my laptop, which has > a single 1.8 Gig processor, than it does on my current desktop, which > has two 2.8 Gig processors. I don't really expect to get use of both > the processors for computations, but still it seems weird that I get > better performance on the laptop. > > Anyway, I just thought somebody might have comments on which current > hardware would be a good bet for sage in the economy price range. (Say > $500 - $750 NOT including display and so on.) > > -Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
