On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:25 PM, John C Frain <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given the price of the Thinkpad X201 I would be very upset if it > overheated and would contact my supplier for a replacement. > Consider getting an aluminium cooling pad, such as those provided by Zalman. It helps keeping my HP from overheating and shutting down. Liviu
> 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. > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail ______________________________________________ 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.
