[R-SIG-Mac] Suggested New Mac for Heavy R Use

[Rainer M Krug]

Nick <franken_beans2000 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Good afternoon, I am looking at buying my first Mac and thought i'd
> ask for advice for what I should get. I have it down to the two models
> below (but am open to realistic suggestions).
>
> I will primarily be using R for machine learning packages, and the
> data sets are very large. If any other specs are needed let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance. 

- 13 inch is quite small - I would go for the 15-inch

- 128GB SSD is to small - at least in my experience. I have 256 GB and
this works, but only 35 GB free - so I have a second USB3 HDD for
additional data

- 8GB RAM is fine

I have the MacBookPro 10,1 Retina, 8GB memory and the 256 GB SSD drive -
with Intel Core i7

I really like this machine

The cores do make a difference.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> 13-inch MacBook Air ($1,349)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 128GB Flash Storage
>
> 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina ($1,399.00)
> 2.4GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
> 128GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
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Rainer M. Krug

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