MATLAB: Is Mac an option for working MATLAB

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Una MacBook Air 2020 con procesador i5 de décima generación me permitiría trabajar bien con matlab?

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The new (2020) MacBook Air with i5 processor has quad-core 1.1 GHz base rate with turbo boost to 3.5 GHz.

Turbo boost is used only if the total heat for the boosted processors would be low enough. With that system, you would probably routinely be able to run a single processor at boost speeds, but as you started doing hard work on all 4 processors, they might only boost a bit, depending how hot the environment is.

When you do vectorized mathematics in MATLAB, and you are using large enough matrices, then MATLAB will automatically use all of your processors... so they would all be creating heat, and so you might not be able to get full boost out of them. You should probably not count on getting more than 2 GHz for that kind of processing.

The MacBook Air has 8 Gigabytes of memory, but can be configured for 16 Gigabytes. For the kind of work I do, I was finding 8 Gigabytes to be a limit; I recommend the 16 gigabytes.

So, you can use MATLAB with MacBook Air 2020. However, it is not clear that it will work well -- that would depend on what kind of MATLAB work you were using it for.

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All MC methods are in general extremely CPU consuming. So, soon or later you always reach limits of your computer. From this point of view I suggest most powerful CPU you can buy by your budget + additional RAM + fast SSD disk. In some cases GPU capabilities (cuda) are very useful.

Minimum config:
- CPU with 8 physical cores
- 32GB RAM
- SSD system system disk 256GB or more
- HDD data disk 1TB or more (7200rpm)
- NVIDIA graphics card - gpu-cuda computing
- Linux OS

MATLAB: Do I get ‘License Manager Error -9’ after manually activating to en0 on the Apple computer

Although most of our documentation says that Apple computers should be activated to the MAC address of your en0 network device, there are a few exceptions.

If you are using OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" or newer, and are using a Mac with more than one built-in network interface, you should use the MAC for your en1 network device instead. Some of the models that are impacted by this issue are: MacBook, non-retina MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro.

Models that typically aren't impacted by this issue are: MacBook Air, and Retina MacBook Pro.

Additionally, in some rare cases, MATLAB may switch between these two network devices on each reboot. If you aren't able to open MATLAB, but can resolve the issue after a reboot, this issue may be happening to you.

If this issue is reproducible, please contact MathWorks Support with both MAC addresses. They have the ability to generate a custom file that should help.

NOTE: In general, most activation issues can be resolved by running automatic activation instead of manually activating.

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