One you may not have considered is Apple's Macbook Pro.
You can keep Mac OS X or dual boot to Linux.
USB performance is good but the MBP also has Firewire
so you can attach a huge RAID if you want and get quite
a lot of disk bandwidth without taking any from USB.
Mac OS X has some interesting f
Probably won't come as a surprise to those who know me, but we have
used MacBook Pro's with good results. While I've never tried, in
theory a MacBook (not Pro) could also suffice, since internally it's
about the same as the Intel iMac, of which we also have a number
running GNU Radio at fu
It would be good to see benchmarks of the blocks that dominate
receivers on various processors. I think for our 802.11 receiver the
most time went to FIR filters.
You didn't specify if your workload was floating point or integer; I
suspect that the chip with best performance will be different.
Bahn William L Civ USAFA/DFCS wrote:
We will (hopefully) be purchasing some new laptops specifically for use
with the USRP and wanted to get any recommendations on particularly good
machines to purchase or, failing that, what specs to focus on.
This is my present thinking - please correct any mi
Bahn William L Civ USAFA/DFCS wrote:
We will (hopefully) be purchasing some new laptops specifically for use
with the USRP and wanted to get any recommendations on particularly good
Bill,
I'm going through the same decision now. When it comes to processors,
probably more important to compile
Bahn William L Civ USAFA/DFCS wrote:
> We will (hopefully) be purchasing some new laptops specifically for use
> with the USRP and wanted to get any recommendations on particularly good
> machines to purchase or, failing that, what specs to focus on.
>
> This is my present thinking - please correc
We will (hopefully) be purchasing some new laptops specifically for use
with the USRP and wanted to get any recommendations on particularly good
machines to purchase or, failing that, what specs to focus on.
This is my present thinking - please correct any misconceptions I have:
1) Dual core is p
