Notebooks for bioinformatics

Question

[BATMAN]

Hello people, how are you? I am looking to upgrade the notebook I currently use for bioinformatics. I have a Dell Inspiron (2017) 14-3467 i5-7ma 16gb RAM and 512 SSD, Ubuntu.

Which of these machines are good for bioinformatics?

• Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54 obsidian black 15.6" notebook, Intel Core i5 9300H 8GB RAM 256GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650. Price= 814 USD

• Apple MacBook Pro (13 inch, 2020, M1 Chip, 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM DDR3) Price= 1200 USD

• Acer Swift I7 11va Evo 8gb Ssd256 14pul Iris Xe. Price =588 USD

• Notebook Msi Modern I7 11va 8gb Ssd512 14puLG Iris Xe Price= 800USD

• Msi Crosshair 15 I7-11800h Rtx 3050 16gb Ddr4 512gb. Price =850 USD

• Msi Sword 15.6 I7-11va Gen 8gb 512gb Ssd Rtx 3050ti (144hz). Price= 1100USD

• Notebook Msi Prestige Intel I7-1185g7 16gb 512 Ssd. Price= 1000USD

What about the macbook pro?

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

You need to add some information about what kind of analysis you are planning to do on your laptop? What is the expected size of the data and number of samples? Your current laptop is already reasonably spec'ed so machines you list are more or less similar with newer intel CPU so they should be able to do similar analyses but would complete them faster.

Macbook Pro would be likely the fastest machine of the lot but it will be limited by 8G of RAM (not upgradable).