Mac VS PC for graduate school and beyond..statistics programs?

[RedPill]

I've been using Mac for the past 8 years. Sadly, my laptop died a few months back and I've been using a super clunky/old HP Pavilion since then. I'm in the market to buy a new laptop, and I'm wondering if it Stata, SAS, SPSS, R and other quant/qual programs will work well on a Mac. Any thoughts here? 

Edited November 15, 2014 by RedPill

[Roll Right]

I know that SPSS works well on a Mac. I'm also very certain that R runs well on a Mac.

 

I imagine that STATA and SAS do as well, but I've never used either of those programs.

 

I think you should stick with Mac - no reason to switch teams now.

[Applemiu]

To install SAS (by the way I love SAS) on a Mac is a bit of a headache; all the other programs run fine.

Edited November 15, 2014 by Applemiu

[Crucial BBQ]

I have Stata on my old 2007 MacBook.  I have yet to install it on my new Retina so not sure if it works with Yosemite.  R does, and works great.  Matlab works great, too, in case you were wondering. 

[juilletmercredi]

All of them work fine on a Mac except SAS.  You need to run a virtual machine with Windows to run SAS on a Mac; I use VMWare, you can also use Parallels.  It's kind of a pain in the butt but personally I don't use SAS much unless I'm running some more complicated models with a macro.  You just need to make sure you get a sufficiently powered machine - my personal MacBook has 8 GB of RAM and that's fine; my work Mac has 16 GB of RAM and it is GLORIOUS.

 

Stata works fine on Yosemite - I just installed Yosemite on my own computer about a week or so ago and I've been using Stata wonderfully.  SPSS does too.