Re: Re: st: "Fixing" all windows (Results, command, review and variables) with Stata 11 for Mac

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:33 AM,Phil wrote:

> This is a religious issue, and one that is probably not appropriate
> for Statalist.  However, one reason a lot of scientists/researchers
> have switched to OS X is that it gives you the full power of Unix in
> an easy-to-use package with lots of "added goodness" (e.g., some great
> OS X applications, direct interface to iPhone/iPod, what some people
> consider to be a well-designed GUI, etc.).

To add one objective point to Phil's comments: as some of my Windows-using colleagues have recently experienced, moving from 32-bit Windows to 64-bit Windows is not painless. All Mac OS X systems (like most Linux and Unix systems out there) are fully 64-bit, and all Mac hardware is 64-bit. That allows you to use all of that expensive RAM you installed in your system within Stata and other memory-hungry apps.

And lines like these make me smile:
15:17  up 53 days, 58 mins, 3 users, load averages: 1.59 1.30 1.29

Kit

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