They are not bad per say, but their prices are just not that competitive with PC's IMHO. Also Apple seems to have given up on putting out laptops with good specs. I ran boot-camp and parallels as a work around and I made it through school just fine, but it was a bunch of extra work and confusion and I wouldn't want to do it again. Practically every software I needed to use is school was Windows only. At the time it made sense to me as it was 2012 and apple's laptops were practically the only thing out there with a nice aluminum construction and decent specs. I bought a MBP my freshman year as an engineering student. have a Desktop PC where 32Gb of ram was only like $150 vs $80 for 16gb.įWIW if you REALLY need to store large arrays in memory you can allocate a pagefile on your HDD/SSD to act as an additional ram buffer, but that will come with a performance drop.ĭo you have to run MacOS for your application? They're not really a good value in the Price/Performance area - a MUCH stronger desktop PC will cost about half what a MBP would. Having the extra ram is nice so that you don't have to think about conserving memory, but its totally not worth the expense apple charges in their laptops for it. I don't recall ever going above like 13-14 Gb usage at any point. I have 32 Gb in my system and I admit it was a largely unnecessary expense. I wouldn't get a computer with <16 Gb ram for any reason these days, let alone Matlab. You can always dial down the MC simulations for quick calculations and run the long ones overnight. Any MBP from the past ~5ish years will be totally fine for running most things.
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