Matlab Vs Macbook Pro

I m planning to buy Macbook Pro... does Matlab work on macbook without any software issues.. n do i need to buy licensed software or the free version would do for me.. kindly help me out....

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

I have been using (licensed) MATLAB with no problem on two different Macbook Pro's, and three different Mac OS X versions.

Answer 2

[Jan]

I do not know any software which runs without any issues. You can find a noticable number of bug reports concerning Matlab under OS-X, especially Java seems to be a source of problems.

Without knowing any details of your needs, we cannot decide, if a free numerical software package is sufficient for you. There is no free version of Matlab, but only a cheap one for students.

[Walter Roberson]

The Java issues these days mostly affect parallel programming.

[Jason Ross]

There is a patch available that fixes the errors.

http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/919688