How much processor speed and cores do I need for these tasks?
- by ajay
I am planning to buy a new laptop as I find my current one very slow. My question here is specifically related to RAM size and CPU power.
I will mostly be doing development (not much games). I would be dabbling in distributed computing, multithreaded and data intensive parallelizable tasks on multi-cores. For e.g. I would want to be able to Concurrent programming in Scala/Java/Clojure etc. and be able to see parallelization. Furthermore, I would want the RAM to be enough.
But from a developer machine standpoint, do you think 4GB RAM and 2.53GHz Dual Core processor would be enough.
I'm basically looking at this model:
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC118LL/A?mco=MTM3NDcyODk (link dead)