VM Fusionand Windows XP, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate. Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X. Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate. Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows. Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows.
Purchase Windows XP w/Service Pak 2 or Vista. There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.Īpple Boot Camp software. If you decide to use virtualization software then be sure to max out the RAM in the MacBook. On the other hand there shouldn't be much difference in CPU processing power which is what SAS mainly needs. Mainly this is because the MacBook's GPU simply isn't as effective with virtualization. However, this will not be the case with virtualization software such as Parallels or VM Fusion. If you install Windows via Boot Camp and dual boot, then the MacBook's Windows performance will be the same as a dedicated Windows machine of similar configuration. In fact, I am currently orchestrating the purchase of a MacBook with the intention of setting it up, if necessary, to dual boot Windows for portable access to some heavy-duty 3D laser-scanning software.
While I don't have direct experience running Windows on a MacBook, my experience with an iMac and Fusion suggest it should do just fine. In my own experience, nothing but pain has ever come from a student coming to me with stacks of SPSS output. I try to focus my work on opensource and free solutions since many of the people I help are in less developed (=poorer) countries - one of my reasons for liking R so much. As an academic sysAdmin later in life, though, their licensing was brutal and expensive. Its documentation is voluminous and pretty good. As far as major packages go, it does seem to offer the most detailed control of what is going on through its proc statements, and I've worked with competent statistical researchers that used it extensively.
Well, I will admit that as a graduate student, I, too, used SAS.
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