{"id":4686,"date":"2013-04-18T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2013-04-18T17:21:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:21:25","slug":"mathematica-9-benchmark-on-microsoft-surface-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4686","title":{"rendered":"Mathematica 9 benchmark on Microsoft Surface Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently got hold of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Surface\/en-gb\/surface-with-windows-8-pro\/home\">Microsoft Surface Pro<\/a> tablet and he let me have a play on it for a couple of hours.\u00a0 So, I installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.co.uk\/mathematica\/\">Mathematica 9<\/a> and ran the benchmark.\u00a0 A screenshot of the result is below with the Surface&#8217;s result in blue.\u00a0 Not bad for a tablet!<\/p>\n<p>Touch controlled <a href=\"http:\/\/reference.wolfram.com\/mathematica\/ref\/Manipulate.html\">Manipulates<\/a> were a lot of fun too.\u00a0 If only I could run such things on my iPad as appeared to be promised in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wolfram.com\/2012\/02\/17\/a-preview-of-cdf-on-ipad\/\">http:\/\/blog.wolfram.com\/2012\/02\/17\/a-preview-of-cdf-on-ipad\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My only other comment is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Surface\/en-GB\/accessories\/touch-cover\">Touch Cover<\/a> is truly awful, reminding me of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZX81\">ye-olde ZX81<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve been told that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Surface\/en-GB\/accessories\/type-cover\">Type Cover<\/a> is much better<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mathematica 9 benchmark on surface pro\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/images\/mathematica9\/surface_pro_mathematica9.PNG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently got hold of a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet and he let me have a play on it for a couple of hours.\u00a0 So, I installed Mathematica 9 and ran the benchmark.\u00a0 A screenshot of the result is below with the Surface&#8217;s result in blue.\u00a0 Not bad for a tablet! Touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8,70],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-mathematica","category-windows-8","tag-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1dA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}