R on netbooks et al? - R-help

Jim Lemon · 2009-03-05T10:35:47Z

herrdittmann at yahoo.co.uk wrote: > > With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops" I am tempted to > > get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard > > disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel > > with respect to R. > > > > Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if > > so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking > > gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? > I've got R on my little EeeP

Jim Lemon

Thu, Mar 5, 2009 2:35 AM #

herrdittmann at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

I've got R on my little EeePC as well. Great for most jobs and I highly 
recommend a DC/DC convertor for plugging into your car's cigarette 
lighter to get around the crap battery problem.

Jim

Michael A. Miller

Thu, Mar 5, 2009 7:46 AM #

> I've got R on my little EeePC as well. Great for most jobs
    > and I highly recommend a DC/DC convertor for plugging into
    > your car's cigarette lighter to get around the crap battery
    > problem.

I run R on my Eee PC as well - no problems there.  At less than
$400 US and just barely larger than my copy of Venables and
Ripley, it has been real value.  Eee PC 1000HA, >5 hour battery
life (I've never used it long enough to run out of juice), 95%
sized keyboard (a bit cramped), dual 1.6GHz atom processors, 140
Gbyte drive, 1 Gbyte ram, R, emacs, IDL, TeX/LaTeX, cygwin,
python, openoffice, acrobat, msoffice.  Plus, with external
monitor, keyboard and mouse, it functions well as a full
workstation for me at home.

Mike

Liaw, Andy

Thu, Mar 5, 2009 12:32 PM #

From: Michael A. Miller
 Subject: Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?

Are you sure that's dual atoms?  AFAIK it has a single Atom N270 (single
core) at 1.6GHz.  With hyper-threading, you may see "two cpus".

My desktop at home has the Atom N330, the only dual-core Atom released
so far.  It's fine for day-to-day use, but my old Athlon64 3200 runs
faster.  I got the Atom for the low power (I keep it on 24/7).

Andy
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Michael A. Miller

Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06 PM #

> Are you sure that's dual atoms?  AFAIK it has a single Atom
    > N270 (single core) at 1.6GHz.  With hyper-threading, you
    > may see "two cpus".

Yep - that is exactly what is going on.

Mike