[R] Best Mac for R

[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 for hard core (no pun intended) analysis, a
multi-core machine won't be fully utilized without parallel
implementation of some type. Thanks all for your advice. Just what I
was looking for.
Dan

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Karim Mezhoud <kmezhoud at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/1395309/how-to-make-r-use-all-processors
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Mark Sharp <msharp at txbiomed.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>> msharp at TxBiomed.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Feb 25, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Dan Murphy <chiefmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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?
>> > thanks,
>> > dan
>> >
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