Is a HP Pavilion x360 suitable for MATLAB

I start uni this year and one of my electives needs MATLAB and I was wondering if the laptop I have (HP Pavilon) is suitable?

Answer 1

[Jan]

I do not like product placements in the forum. This is near to be a commercial. Instead of advertising the machines name, it would be more useful, if you just show us the specifications: Processor, RAM, operating system. Or even better: Take a look into the official system requirements: https://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq.html (You find this page by searching in the net for "Matlab system requirements"). For Matlab 2017b:

• Win7, 8.1, 10, or Ubuntu/Debian/Suse/Red Hat (other Linux distributions might work, but you get limited support only)
• Any Intel or AMD x86-64 processor
• 2 GB for MATLAB only, 4–6 GB for a typical installation
• 2GB RAM
• No specific graphics card is required.

Well, your machine seems to be fine.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/laptops/hp-pavilion-x360-387003--1

It appears to be available in a variety of processor and memory configurations. I would be concerned that the Pentium + 4Gb would feel too sluggish. The other end, i7 + 12Gb might be ok.

If the course will involve gpu computation then that would be viable with some of the processor/graphics combinations available but not with others.

I do note that none of the configurations have more than 2 cores. As they only run Windows you can count on one core being used up by antivirus and windows update and email checking and the like, so performance may not be as good as one might hope.