Excel and Laptops

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astrikor

I have been developing data processing algorithms using Excel VBA on my
pc and want to update to a laptop for reasons of mobility, but am
unsure about runtimes. My Athlon 1.4Ghz (256RAM) runs a test file in
12 secs using Excel 2000 (17secs with Excel 2003). No graphics are
used.

I need the laptop to run at least as fast so can anyone identify the
relevent parameters, point me at a benchmark performance table, ar
recommend a siutable machine please.
Thanks
 
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Peter Aitken

astrikor said:
I have been developing data processing algorithms using Excel VBA on my
pc and want to update to a laptop for reasons of mobility, but am
unsure about runtimes. My Athlon 1.4Ghz (256RAM) runs a test file in
12 secs using Excel 2000 (17secs with Excel 2003). No graphics are
used.

I need the laptop to run at least as fast so can anyone identify the
relevent parameters, point me at a benchmark performance table, ar
recommend a siutable machine please.
Thanks
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To be honest you would probably be unable to find a new laptop that is as
slow as your current machine.
 
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astrikor

Peter said:
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To be honest you would probably be unable to find a new laptop that is
as
slow as your current machine.
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Maybe I should have made it clearer. On the face of it you would think
my Athlon 1.4Ghz pc would be old hat but it somehow manages to run my
Excel test file rather quick. A friend's Evesham Dominator Athlon 64
3500+ (2.21 GHz) (1024RAM) managed 12 secs and his Evesham Evolution P4
3.2 GHz (512 RAM) only 17 secs. (both using exzcel 2003).
To put my question another way, which laptop could be expected to match
the performance of the Dominator?
Thanks
Astrikor
 
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