Re: [R] Best Mac for R

2015-02-26 Thread Thomas Adams
Dan, FWIW, I have basically the system you describe, except a larger HD — I'm quite happy, but I'm a biased Mac user, although I love my Ubuntu Linux machine as well… One can bring any machine to its knees, so there is the element of expectations. A MacBook Pro stacks up as well or better compared

Re: [R] Best Mac for R

2015-02-26 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 26 Feb 2015, at 06:26 , Dan Murphy wrote: > > Quick responses as usual. Can always count on R-Help! Bert's point > that "it depends" is key, of course. Mark and Karim reminded me that R > does not use all cores natively. Putting those together, an expensive > quad core machine is not necess

Re: [R] Best Mac for R

2015-02-25 Thread Dan Murphy
Quick responses as usual. Can always count on R-Help! Bert's point that "it depends" is key, of course. Mark and Karim reminded me that R does not use all cores natively. Putting those together, an expensive quad core machine is not necessary for simple package development, documentation, etc. And

Re: [R] Best Mac for R

2015-02-25 Thread Karim Mezhoud
Hi, It is not so efficient to have the most speed processor or biggest RAM. In general One processor is working at the time. It is more interesting to work with Linux for multiple multi_thread package and 64 bit. I am not sure if turbo boost is working with R. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13

Re: [R] Best Mac for R

2015-02-25 Thread Mark Sharp
For what I do, which does not require a lot of parallel work, the high end iMac was faster and much less expensive than the Mac Pro. Mark R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D. msh...@txbiomed.org > On Feb 25, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Dan Murphy wrote: > > I am possibly in the market for a new laptop. Predominantly

Re: [R] Best Mac for R

2015-02-25 Thread Bert Gunter
What does this have to do with R? Does the answer not depend on what you intend to do with your laptop, e.g the sorts of data you deal with, of which we have no idea? Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowled

[R] Best Mac for R

2015-02-25 Thread Dan Murphy
I am possibly in the market for a new laptop. Predominantly a Windows user, I owned a macbook pro 10 years ago and am considering going that route again. Does the standard advice still hold: Get the most powerful processor (i7), most ram (16GB), and largest internal storage (512GB), if affordable?