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For complicated mathematic calculations, are extra threads or high-speed disk access more important?

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Next semester, I intend to start doing research in combinatorics. I have used and fallen in love with Mac computers and Wolfram Mathematica 8, and I intend to get these for use with this project and in college. I will be a Physics and Mathematics double major. Because I have a limited budget, I was…

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For the applications you will be doing, 4 cores would be preferred over an SSD. Mathematica specifically supports mutli-core processors, and scales extremely well. See here: http://www.wolfram.com/technology/guide/MulticoreSupport/ You would not exp…

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