| Date: | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:31:07 -0700 |
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| Reply-To: | Stephen McDaniel <stephen@STEPHENMCDANIEL.US> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Stephen McDaniel <stephen@STEPHENMCDANIEL.US> |
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| Subject: | Re: SAS 9.1.3 on 1.33 GHz Laptop? |
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| In-Reply-To: | <VCHNk.32709$TX6.10268@newsfe06.iad> |
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Yes, for years everyone focused on CPU (at the behest of Intel) and I find
that nowadays disc I/O and maximizing memory are the best investments you
can make for the $$$!
Regards,
Stephen
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Carl Kaufmann <cwkaufmann@cox.net> wrote:
> josephpaulgaspar@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
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>> I'd like to purchase a new, ultra-portable laptop. Specifically, I'm
>> looking at the Dell Latitude D430, which has a ** 1.33 GHz ** Intel
>> Core2 Duo processor.
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>> Is the 1.33 GHz processor sufficient to run SAS 9.1.3 *smoothly* on
>> Windows XP Pro?
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>> Many thanks,
>> Joe
>>
>
> I would say that disk speed and amount of RAM (for caching) are, in
> general, more important than CPU speed since nearly everything SAS
> does to a dataset involves disk I/O.
>
> Carl
>
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