Stata runs on large data sets and it reshape at reasonably good speeds
if you have an average laptop config that is available these days. My
machine is a Pentium Core 2 Duo processor (T7500, 2.2 GHz, 4 MB L2
Cache) with 3GB of RAM and a 128 MB of Nvidia Graphics Card. Also my
hard drive is a 7200 RPM hard drive.
All my stata needs are well taken care of with this machine and it
does have a vista in it. I have no complaints with it. If you are in
US you can find a machine like the one above for around $600.
Rijo.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think RESHAPE will feel very comfortable on this beast:
> http://www.alienware.com/products/area-51-m17x-notebook.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AREA51M17X-GC&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT
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> Regards, Sergiy
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> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Adrian Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I checked the archives before posting and couldn't find anything related.
>>
>> I want to know what are the best specifications for a laptop in order to run Stata with a big dataset, that keeps growing. I am not doing a lot of statistical simualtions, but from time to time need to run some marginal effects for logits/ probits and when I RESHAPE some of the databases, it takes over 20 minutes in my current laptop (over 3 years old).
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>> One of the main issues i am facing in my current laptop, is that if keeping other applications running (excel, or outlook) makes stata to fail to save files back in my hardisk
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>> Laptop is important because I telecomute and mobility is a plus. I guess the question can be framed as what is more important RAM versus proccessor speed? Or AMD versus Intel processors? Speed of hard disk?
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>> is there any other configuration specification that I am overlooking?
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>> I you have bought a new laptop recently to run stata, i appreciate if you can let me know the particular specs and budget
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>> thanks
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>> Adrian
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> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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