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Written by victorjavierlo on 2024-10-26 at 21:54

Do you have any recommendations for a good #laptop for #bioinformatics

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Written by Miguel Arbesú on 2024-10-26 at 22:50

@victorjavierlo for the last year and a half I've been using a Dell XPS 15 with i7 processor and Nvidia GTX 1050 running Ubuntu. Battery life could be better, but otherwise I can't complain (if you'd accept a broad definition of bioinformatics 🙂)

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Written by victorjavierlo on 2024-10-27 at 11:26

@miguelarbesu I was considering the XPS 14 i7 and NIVIDIA. But with 32GB and 2T it is almost 2400 euros ….

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Written by Miguel Arbesú on 2024-10-27 at 13:50

@victorjavierlo yeah Dells are not on the cheap end :/

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Written by Peter Cock on 2024-10-26 at 23:48

@victorjavierlo the current Apple laptops are good, but not necessarily a safe choice - the ARM CPU is still new enough that not everything works out of the box. For instance if you use conda, lots of bioconda packages don’t support it yet, nor does everything in conda-forge. There is the option of Rosetta CPU emulation, YMMV

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Written by James Ferguson :rna: on 2024-10-27 at 06:42

@victorjavierlo Yea Dell XPS laptops have been great for me. I run Pop!_OS on them. Solid machines with pretty good battery life.

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Written by victorjavierlo on 2024-10-27 at 07:54

@Psy_Fer_ @pjacock In fact, I was debating between a Dell and a Mac. I’ve been a Mac user for 20 years, but I’m not sure if it’s time to switch—especially considering the price

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Written by James Ferguson :rna: on 2024-10-27 at 08:27

@victorjavierlo @pjacock you can repair them too lol

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Written by victorjavierlo on 2024-10-27 at 10:26

@Psy_Fer_ @pjacock I need computational power, but my computer is very old… I mainly work on transcriptomics, RNA-seq, and scRNA-seq. For example, I tried running a WGCNA on my old computer, but it was impossible. I have two workstations in the lab where I do the alignment.

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Written by James Ferguson :rna: on 2024-10-27 at 11:45

@victorjavierlo @pjacock I run a lot of test pipelines on my laptop. Even nanopore basecalling with the GPU. Then I have a workstation in my home Office, and then of course connection to various HPC and servers. As a Dev machine the dell is great and can get things done in a pinch. But realistically you should be doing heavy analysis on a workstation.

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Written by Juan Nunez-Iglesias on 2024-11-01 at 00:28

@victorjavierlo @Psy_Fer_ @pjacock if I was buying a non-Mac today it would be a @frameworkcomputer. Also really cool is @starlabssystems.

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Written by James Ferguson :rna: on 2024-11-01 at 00:56

@jni @victorjavierlo @pjacock @frameworkcomputer @starlabssystems I wish I could get a framework but it's limited in Australia last time I checked

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Written by Juan Nunez-Iglesias on 2024-11-01 at 01:18

@Psy_Fer_ @victorjavierlo @pjacock @frameworkcomputer @starlabssystems check again? I haven’t gone through the full check out procedure but it looks like they’re available now! (And have been for some time — but just after I got an M1 Max MBP, which to be fair I remain very happy with.) (But won’t be as soon as something fails of course. 😭)

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Written by James Ferguson :rna: on 2024-11-01 at 02:19

@jni Ahh you are right! they now ship to Aus and have everything in AUD. nice!

They are a bit pricy though compared to to a dell.

I think the only thing that would stop me buying one for my next laptop is they don't have Nvidia cards. I kinda need one for doing small tests of my tools. (cuda requirement). If they can somehow add those, it's an easy buy from me. I could upgrade the GPU too which would be awesome!

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Written by Juan Nunez-Iglesias on 2024-11-01 at 02:27

@Psy_Fer_ I mean don’t get me started on the nvidia monopoly on GPU computing. 😜 But, I get you. 😢

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Written by victorjavierlo on 2024-11-01 at 08:46

@jni @Psy_Fer_ @pjacock @frameworkcomputer @starlabssystems I am thinking in buying a home workstation and a simple laptop.

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Written by James Ferguson :rna: on 2024-11-01 at 09:05

@victorjavierlo @jni @pjacock @frameworkcomputer @starlabssystems yea I got one of those raspberry pie 200 keyboard computer things. Use it to just shh into various servers and run vs code. Goes hard.

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Written by victorjavierlo on 2024-11-01 at 18:26

@Psy_Fer_ @jni @pjacock @frameworkcomputer @starlabssystems Decided! I bought this one:

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