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I don't know how to pronounce your name, but your question was
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hello, may I know which is better when using computational software, i.e. MATLAB, R, Python
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among others, Mac, or Windows. I do research projects and I usually do these softwares to do
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computations. I want to buy a new laptop since my Windows barely survived the day without lagging
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And I was thinking of trying out the M1 chip from Apple by its MacBook Pro
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More important than the operating system that you're using is going to be the hardware that
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you're using. MATLAB can take advantage of multi-threading for parallel performance. And so you want to make sure that you have a CPU that has a lot of cores and that is going to be
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powerful. The more RAM you have as well, because there are times where you can run out of memory
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and then it's going to start doing some swapping. Now, if you're on the M1, then swapping already
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tends to happen quite a bit. And right now you're currently going to be capped at 16 gigabytes
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Whereas if you're with a Windows PC, it's possible to find some that have a lot more RAM than that
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or even the Intel-based MacBook Pros, you can get a lot more RAM than that. And then there's going
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to be the graphics cards. For example, MATLAB can take advantage of NVIDIA's GPUs for better
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performance as well. And that's something that you're not going to get in a MacBook Pro
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Another important thing to keep in mind here, though, is that MATLAB does now support the M1
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chips, but through the Rosetta 2 translation. And that can be kind of like hit or miss with
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applications as well as how well it performs. So they don't quite have it there natively
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Things could definitely change when they actually have their application able to take advantage of
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the Silicon chips natively. That's typically in a lot of the programs that I've seen that have
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kind of like struggled on the M1s. As soon as it goes native, it tends to be a really
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really good experience. So if you need something right away, I'd probably look at going with one
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of the Intel MacBook Pros and getting as much RAM as you can, and or a really powerful Windows
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laptop, also getting as much RAM as you can and the best CPU that you can. It might also be worth
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waiting for the next round of MacBook Pros, the larger models that are going to be coming out
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soon, because they're likely going to allow for more RAM and the next version of the M1 chip
