[R] ..of R, OS X, and linux

[Jan de Leeuw]

There will be a processor upgrade and a price drop announced
on November 5, for both iBooks and TiBooks (if the rumor sites
have it right).

I am glad to hear you can run OS 9 from Linux running  on
an iBook.

--- Jan

On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 09:50 PM, A.J. Rossini wrote:

>
> The new(er,est?) Mac iBook2's are rather nice and cheap (and quiet --
> faster and quieter than my wife's slightly older Sony R505, for
> example, and comparably sized).
>
> Plus, if you have the know-how, it makes the perfect Linux laptop :-)
> (screams from OS-X and Mac die-hards in the background...), except for
> a lack of ability to handle external displays and presentations (but
> you really do want Mac OS X and the joys of Mac user friendly
> auto-detect/config to make that part completely painless).
>
> You still can run OS9 and OSX from within Linux, if you really want to
> (MacOnLinux works, though I'm having problems with getting OS9 on > 8
> bit graphics, but who needs it?).
>
> Now, if you are looking for a desktop replacement rather than a small
> notebook ("small" was the operative word for me, 12" screen the max I
> would tolerate), you probably want an AMD or Intel-based laptop.  The
> TiBook is nice and classy, but probably not as cost effective.
>
> best,
> -tony
>
>
>
>
>>>>>> "jan" == Jan de Leeuw <deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu> writes:
>
>     jan> This would depend very much on the task. It is quite obvious  
> that
>     jan> for heavy floating point, especially double precision  
> floating point
>     jan> without tweaking, top of the line Pentium will be considerably
>     jan> faster than current top of the line G4 (single processor).  
> For ordinary
>     jan> interactive computing, you will not see much difference, I  
> think,
>     jan> and for the really gigantic computing tasks you need to go to
>     jan> multiple processors/multiple machines anyway.
>
>     jan> On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 10:16 AM, Michaell Taylor  
> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I am an avid linux user who is intrigued with apple's OS X.
>>>
>>> I am now considering purchasing another laptop - which may provide
>>> an  excuse
>
>>> to get a feel of OS X. Of course there are lots of considerations,
>>> but  R
>
>>> command file processing speed is a major factor.
>>>
>>> I know of many speed comparisons between G4/G3 and the various
>>> flavors  of
>
>>> Pentiums, but more useful would be one specifically utilizing R.
>>>
>>> Has anyone conducted such a test?
>>>
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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software
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phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
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