I have a gatway running scientific linux 6.4.  It runs R quite well.  I had
an old mac power pc running a special flavor of debian that ran R well
relative to the hardware constraints.

FWIW, get all intel hardware; Then the rest is up to you.  Good Luck!

Stephen


On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Steve Lianoglou
<lianoglou.steve@gene.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have no real input here from personal experience, but the author of
> the coderspiel blog has these two "recent" posts about his experience
> with Ubuntu on (what seem to be) two very nice machines:
>
> The latest is a Vaio Pro of some sort. Ubuntu is a bit difficult to
> install, but doable:
>
> http://code.technically.us/post/55425026899/vaio-pro-for-programming
>
> An earlier post talks about the ThinkPad Carbon X1:
>
> http://code.technically.us/post/50837506478/senistive-touchpads-and-ubuntu
>
> Which apparently supports ubuntu quite easily (out of the box, I think).
>
> >From quickly skimming, it seems like his only gripe with the X1 is
> that it has a large monitor.
>
> I can't really imagine why any of these laptops would have a problem
> running R. I agree with what (I think) Rolf is saying in that your
> biggest issue will be to find a laptop that runs your favorite flavor
> of Linux well. Once you satisfy that constraint, I'm relatively sure
> that the chances of running R "well" is quite high. Whether or not the
> machine can run R well doesn't say much about how easily linux will be
> installed (and fully functional).
>
> HTH,
> -steve
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.turner@xtra.co.nz>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think that Hasan Diwan's assertion is a bit of an over-simplification.
>  I
> > have a Toshiba Satellite
> > L850 that has no problems of any sort running R.  However it *does* have
> > problems with WiFi.
> > The WiFi drivers for my laptop won't work under (any?) Linux system.
> > Apparently (I don't completely
> > grok the concepts here) this is because the drivers are proprietary and
> so
> > Linux developers can't
> > get at the code.
> >
> > My previous laptop (an elderly IBM ThinkPad) had no problems with WiFi,
> at
> > least not after I
> > upgraded to the then most recent versions of Fedora and later Ubuntu.
> >
> > I have managed to work around the WiFi problem by using a USB WiFi
> device.
> > Be careful,
> > but.  The first one I got, an ASUS USB-N10, was advertised to have "Linux
> > support" but
> > after much travail (and after having got a great deal of expert advice) I
> > decided it was
> > no go.  I am currently using an EnGenius EUB9801 which seems to work
> > smoothly.  I have
> > also ordered a "Penguin Wireless G USB Adapter for GNU / Linux" from
> > ThinkPenguin.com,
> > but it hasn't arrived yet.  (Being shipped from the USA to New Zealand.)
> > The ThinkPenguin
> > people seem to have their heads screwed on right, and answered my inquiry
> > promptly,
> > thoroughly and comprehensibly.
> >
> > I hope this is of some relevance to someone!
> >
> >     cheers,
> >
> >         Rolf Turner
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/08/13 06:47, Hasan Diwan wrote:
> >>
> >> Any laptop that performs well with Linux will perform acceptably with R
> >> and
> >> vice versa. -- H
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11 August 2013 11:03, Mitchell Maltenfort <mmalten@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Can anyone recommend a laptop that performs well running R under Linux?
> >>> Thanks.
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Computational Biologist
> Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
> Genentech
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>



-- 
Stephen Sefick
**************************************************
Auburn University
Biological Sciences
331 Funchess Hall
Auburn, Alabama
36849
**************************************************
sas0025@auburn.edu
http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025
**************************************************

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us
feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
problems of being mammals.

                                -K. Mullis

"A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal
science."

                              -Robert Gentleman

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

