What is the best laptop for a data scientist?
I asked myself exactly the same question about a year ago, and came up with a solution which now works amazingly, learnt a lot, and saved myself a heap of money in the process. I already had built my ideal (i.e. powerful) data analytics computer about a year prior, but it was a desktop. I figured I could actually just buy a really cheap laptop, keep my desktop running all the time, and then use RDP*, Teamviewer*, or a VNC* programme to connect to it whenever I needed to do some data analysis. What is the best laptop for data Science ? I bought the cheap laptop (AU$350, 11" touchscreen display, windows 8, HP net book thing), and started trying to set up VNC. I got it working, but it meant that I had to always leave my desktop running, and it was fairly laggy. I later discovered Amazon AWS EC2, a service which let's you create virtual computers with any operating system you want and customise how you access them. I set up one of these (Linux), then taught myself how to use Lin