What do you recommend? I know that bioinformatics use Linux instead Windowsbut I do not know the technical details that are needed for bioinformatics studies. It's for me, I'm just a beginner but I want to go deeper into that field.
Generally, Consider high processing power e.g Core i7 Processors, for the operating system point, linux is so popular, yes, but you you can install a virtual machine on your windows system to run linux, you may also setup linux and have another room from your hard drive for windows system which i do recommend due to limited memory capacity of virtual machine programs. Moreover you need to connect into larger computer cluster for more processing power so you may consider HPC (High performance computing) for major studies, you may also be connected to a research node of bioinformatics that provides you with this opportunity.
Thanks to all and no Jochen, It's not a gift is for me. I was reading about a lap called Galago Pro System 76 but I did not know what is really needed when you definitely want to do Bioinformatic analysis. I'm just a beginner but I want to go deeper into that field.
For a laptop, any not-too-bad standard hardware will do. There is no need to spend a lot of money in high-end hardware. If you want to do that part of bioinformatics that really requires a hell lot of processor power (and RAM and storage), you would do that in a cluster, not on a laptop.
I agree with Jochen, you can't substitute a laptop for a LINUX server with 128Gb ram and 16 cores. You can, however, learn how to work with data subsets like a particular chromosome.
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