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• OP: 0 Goods vs 0 No Goods
• Thread: 11 Goods vs 5 No Goods

1. Sociologist
   70cd
   

   16GB or 32GB or 64GB?

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2. Sociologist
   31bf
   

   I would buy as much as you can because you'll have more flexibility down the road. But if you'll do everything on a remote desktop, maybe you won't need it.

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3. Sociologist
   4eb4
   

   Not much. Keep all your work in the cloud. Build or rent an Rstudio server if your school lacks one.

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4. Sociologist
   fd1a
   

   I have been using s**tty small portable labtop for 5+ years (I even don't know how much RAM it has because it is meant to be used as a portable sub labtop for travel) and that is fine. I am even a quant research who uses STATA. Very few of us do complicated bigdata computational type of things.

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5. Sociologist
   f243
   

   16 is plenty unless you are doing really big computational stuff then 32. Definitely no need for 64

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6. Sociologist
   090f
   

   Same. I have a new computer with a smaller screen and just keep using the old one heh

   I have been using s**tty small portable labtop for 5+ years (I even don't know how much RAM it has because it is meant to be used as a portable sub labtop for travel) and that is fine. I am even a quant research who uses STATA. Very few of us do complicated bigdata computational type of things.

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7. Sociologist
   4a6d
   

   16 is enough. If you're doing heavily computational work, it's going to scale quite quickly past 32 gig anyway -- that's why people use cloud computing clusters.

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8. Sociologist
   648f
   

   My cheap ass laptop has 4 GB of RAM and it can run all my quant stuff just fine. No big data/computational stuff but some SEM etc. It's a little slower than my desktop, but it doesn't hinder my work when I use it while travelling or when I just want to work from the couch.

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9. Sociologist
   6fbe
   

   128

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10. Sociologist
    a36f
    

    Not much. Average soc grad student has very simple, low-complexity thoughts. So they operate on a minimal amount of RAM.

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