On 2014-03-11, 12:40 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Today, you¹re much better off getting a server/workstation which you can > load with RAM and more cores for computing for the same price (running > Linux, obviously, you really don¹t want to do computing on > Windows with R) Running Linux ... or OS X. > - and use your desktop/laptop just to access its computing power. OP mentioned RStudio. RStudio Server makes this very easy and pleasant to do (again this means Linux ... or OS X). >> For some background - I have worked on Macs for years, but moved my >> main work desktop to Windows about 2 years ago. I also do quite a bit >> of work in QIIME - which can be done on the mac (not the PC) and is both >> RAM and CPU intensive... so, I can benefit from multiple cores, large >> RAM, etc. My 2011 MacBook Pro seems extremely sluggish at this point >> when running basic tasks (probably need to do a fresh OS install), > > If you encounter sluggishness in OS X is pretty much always a disk issue. > Wipe the disk or even better put in a SSD - it¹s more than worth it - a > whole different world. > > Cheers, > Simon -Ian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
