Does SAS 9.4 run slowly on a laptop? Is it possible to install 9.4 on a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 and run effectively?
Thank you!
As far as I am aware the Microsoft Surface runs a cut-down version of Windows called Windows RT. This is not one of the operating systems supported by SAS.
This link may help:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikfdtnwx6sr/66390/PDF/default/sreq.pdf
Surface pro 2 has "the FULL VERSION of WINDOWS 8.1" . will that be OK?
Do you mean a tablet, instead of laptop?
If so an ASUS transformer may be a possibility.
Thanks Reeza!
SAS9.4 on my laptop runs much slower than 9.3 did.
Works like a charm on mine. ...but then I've used my chance to ask for a new laptop with more memory in order to run SAS 9.4 images as now more and more clients are web-based so one needs the additional memory to run the mid-tier as well (I'm assigning 8GB RAM to such images).
Thank you Patrick! I am thinking of buying a 128 GB Surface Pro2. will that be OK?
Linlin, 128GB is storage, though it is supposed to be a lot faster (SSD) comparing to disk based storage, but it is still not RAM, while RAM is critical to your SAS performance.
Haikuo
Hi Lilin - it's all depend on how many SAS applications you are going to download in your laptop....more applications will need more physical space to download and more ram to run SAS smoothly...
Hi Haikuo and Sandy,
Thank you for your inputs!
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