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 to a similarly configured windows box. The thing is, IMO, there are at least two very good virtual machines to run MS-Windows on if the need arises (as well as Apple's 'Boot Camp') and, I believe, since the core Mac OS is essentially UNIX/Linux you have all that capability natively as well.
Tom On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Dan Murphy <chiefmur...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.