[R-SIG-Mac] Mac as R platform

[elw at stderr.org]

> Thank you very much, both Simon and Prof. Leeuw. My focus is on the ease 
> of development. Based on your feedback, Mac will be a good choice. About 
> the raw speed, I am using a Pentium M 1.7 Ghz notebook and am extremely 
> impressed by its speed (had been so frustrated by the slow Sun Sparc 
> workstation).

pretty off-topic for this list, but we have pretty good luck with our Sun 
boxes here... depending on the task.

What sort of SPARC machine were you using, for what kind of task?

Sometimes we're better off on SPARC than on the G5.

--e