SPSS 19, 2.66Ghz dual core vs 1.66Ghz Quad core

[Lance]

I'm in the market for a new laptop and my options are
either a
i7-720QM, 1.60GHz Quad core, 6M cache machine or,
i7-620M, 2.66GHz Dual core, 4M cache machine.

I use SPSS almost exclusively so I am leaning towards
the i7-620M, 2.66GHz, 4M cache machine for the higher
processing speed. I'm not certain SPSS will take advantage
of the Quad processor so I'm not certain I see any advantage to it.

Datasets usually consists of 1-2K variables with 500-2000 id's.
No heavy bootstrapping or bayes algorithms. Usually general
stats - means, corrs ..., some iterative macros ... Occasional
Wards/KMeans. Recently I have been doing a lot with OMS and the
Output window, exporting to XL, and using the old SAX Basic SBS files.

What are your thoughts?

TIA,

Lance

[rohin...@gmail.com]

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