Matlab has an online benchmarking tool, which may be useful if you can try it on prospective machines, or perhaps (in the current circumstances) ask sellers or friends with similar machines to report results:
https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/bench.html
The graph shown initially is a dummy example - you have to click "Try this example" to get a web app/live editor, then run (or edit, I presume) the script.
If the chemistry dept in question has dedicated IT support, they might have advice.
Hope that helps.
Gareth
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, at 12:48, Nick Chalk via Hampshire wrote:
> Hello James.
>
> On Wednesday, 27 January, 2021, you wrote
> > The CPU speed is probably not going to make much
> > difference for MATLAB, because the disk will be
> > the limiting factor.
>
> I would be careful about making that assertion
> without knowing the size of datasets in use. Some
> statistical routines are highly processor-
> intensive, and anything that needs the data sorted
> will benefit from more cores.
>
> Of course, you do need enough memory. 4GBytes is
> tight, and I'd agree with using 16GBytes or more.
>
> > The GPU is probably not important, but if you
> > ever wish to install Linux on it, I would avoid
> > NVIDIA GPUs. Go for AMD or Intel graphics on
> > the laptop.
>
> That depends on the job. The MathWorks site states
> that Matlab can use Nvidia cards for computation,
> which may be relevant for Owain's son.
>
> Nick.
>
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