Runing matlab on surface go?
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Will the surface go run matlab well well? Or will I have issues with this?
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Walter Roberson
on 25 Sep 2018
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 25 Sep 2018
There are two versions of the Surface Go. One of them only has 4 Gb of RAM, and so barely reaches the current minimum specifications for MATLAB. The other one has 8 Gb of RAM, and so is plausibly useful for MATLAB.
I did a lot of productive work with MATLAB in 8 gigabytes of RAM. However, I was getting increasingly frustrated with having only 8 gigabytes. MATLAB was increasing in size, the operating system was increasing in size, the number of operating system daemons was going up, browsers were increasing in size, the amount of data I was trying to handle at the same time was increasing, I was running more simultaneous Maple windows computing things for MATLAB users, I was running virtual machines so I could run MS Windows on my Mac so I could answer Windows-specific MATLAB questions (or so I could help administer my mother's Windows system)...
These days I would no longer purchase a new system with as low as 8 Gb for more than casual MATLAB use.
However, if your intended use is just school assignments, then 8 Gb might work fine for you for a few years. By the time of final year projects, it is a bit more difficult to predict whether it would be enough or not.
If you are thinking of it as a longer term system, then I would not purchase the Surface Go. It is only dual core 1.66 GHz.
Oh wait, major problem: The Surface Go runs Windows 10 S, and "Rather than allowing you to download and install whatever you feel like, Windows 10 S Mode will only permit apps from the Windows 10 Store to be installed. " MATLAB is not in the Windows 10 Store, so you would not be able to install it -- not unless you switched out of Windows 10 S mode, which is not currently permitted (but is in the works.)
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Walter Roberson
on 26 Sep 2018
One thing is for sure: it won't have an NVIDIA GPU ;-)
I see that the only external port it has is a single USB-C .
You will be wanting to add a bluetooth mouse, as you will not want to be locking up your one and only external port with a wireless mouse dongle. The bluetooth mice I have happened to use have gone through batteries notably faster than the wireless mouse+dongle mice I have used on various computers, but it has been a nuisance that the dongle uses a slot.
Or perhaps you will want to get the pen for the Go; that might make sense for various uses.
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