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MATLAB for Mac OS X Announced
FunkDaddy writes "The MathWorks today announced its intention to make MATLAB, the industry's leading technical computing software, available on Mac OS X, with the next release of the MathWorks product line. With MATLAB on Mac OS X, users will be able to use powerful, sophisticated technical computing tools in a graphical and intuitive environment. You hear that mac-geek-scientist-guys? Rejoice!" It looks like perhaps that survey did some good.
Hey, I thought I was paying my subscription fee so I didn't have to see ads. How come I'm seeing ads for MATLAB now? Did I use up my 1000 pages already?
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Will the new Matlab run under Quartz or under XDarwin? I wonder.... And what's with the mention of Java in the press release, will matlab use Java so that it can run even slower still?
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i am kinda surprised that they didnt port it earlier, after all now that macos is an unix, porting matlab probably didnt require more than recompilation of their existing unix matlab source.
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I dont know what the rest of you guys think, but i have a love-hate relationship to Matlab. It is unreasonably expensive and it has a whole bunch of flaws (negative indexing anyone?).However, by some ancient twist of fate it has become standard.
It is possible to lend a copy of matlab from the university i attend for about $6. But the day i'm outtahere it gonna cost me to continue using it.
Its a bit sad that my university so vigourously require students to learn matlab. I once enterred into a discussion with one of the professors... Afterwards i learned that he had written a bunch of the toolboxes ('system identification' and 'robust control' i think), so that professor were economically motivated to engourage people to start using matlab.
Still, theres no need complaining about it. Its a decent tool that will surely be welcome for many OS X users.
The current Matlab release (6.x) has a Java interface. You can call Java programs from within Matlab. Very usefull for GUI-building.p /tech doc/matlab_external/matlab_external.shtml
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OK, so I was really about to lose hope over this... Mac hardware was really looking like the Right Thing for all of my needs *except* for the fact that there was no Matlab available for OS X. I would have to believe that Apple was made very aware of how killer it would be to have this happen, and that they may have had to toss in some cash to bankroll this on the front end. Does anybody know if this is the way it worked?
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Once I get my hands on Matlab OS X, I can finally be rid of my windows machine. I'm not a foaming at the mouth Gates hater, I just simply prefer os x. I have Offive vX, Maple, and soon matlab...now only solidworks... and my plan of world domination will come to fruition! muhahaha *wipes foam from mouth*
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I know that Octave is not quite Matlab, but it's definitely enough for all the assignments an average student gets. There is a fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/octav e) package. And I believe it's definitely worth a look, instead of stealing Matlab from Gnutella.
I am a new mac person. I converted because of the unixyness of osx, since I primarily use various unix type machines for work.
The only thing missing from my osx software arsonal was MATLAB (really -- everything else was unix freeware). Starting up an os9 background sucked.
Is anyone else as happy as I am?
..that I can get the OS X version for free. I just spent $1900 on an individual commercial linux license for my home-based scientific consulting biz, but I've got a dual G4/533 in addition to my dual P4/1.7 at home, and a mac in the office at school as well. The individual licenses actually allow you to install on as many machines as you want, as long as you agree to be the sole user and use only one copy at a time - but it may be platform-restricted.
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Up until recently, I had been using ancient versions of MATLAB on some forgotten undergrad machines in my department. Looked and worked decent on the Apple Power Macintosh and Sun SPARCstation machines I was using. A few months ago, I began using MATLAB for real projects (read: I finally learned to how actually use the thing). =)
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But... let me tell you, the non-Windows versions of MATLAB 6.1 (aka MATLAB Release 12) stink. They must have used some wonky Windows-to-UNIX porting kit for the more recent versions, as the interface is totally Windows looking on the Solaris and Linux versions I've used. Sure, the whole package works great and Simulink has saved my skin more than once -- but the interface is terrible.
Another app I've been using heavily is Maple. I started with one of the earlier revisions of Maple V and have since worked my way up thru Maple 6 to Maple 7. It's "only" a simbolic mathematics program, but it's a **VERY** well done cross-platform port. The Windows version looks like a Windows app. The "classic" Mac OS 8 / Mac OS 9 version looks like a Mac app. And the UNIX versions (commercial unices and Linux) look like nice, proper X11 apps (though perhaps a bit more Motif based than most GTK or Qt folks would like). Kudos to Maplesoft/Waterloo for supporting so many platforms in such a pleasent way.
Now if only Matlab (which, BTW, uses part of the Maple engine for its symbolic math module) would only take a cue from Maple...
(In a related note, I have no idea how well Mathematica works these days, but the screenshots look decent. The last time I used that app was on a NeXTstation -- it was a great NeXT port. Their Mac OS X version screenshots look pretty nice, too.)
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How about the return of AutoCAD? My consistant gripe has also been for 3DStudio, but with Maya's price cut I would be happy if AutoCAD MAC had 3d stair and window-in-wall tools like 3DSViz and good Maya support - oh, wait, Maya competes with 3DS - rats. OK, how about Architecure tools for Maya - two way AutoCAD import/export, 3D stair layout, various windows and doors in walls - oh, yeah, walls.
my sources say that matlab for OS X will run under XDarwin and not under aqua... hey, at least this gives us a chance to write something better and brand gnu :) and there's always orboros X to give XDarwin the same look and feel as aqua
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Supposedly the brand-Gnu Matlab replacement "Octave" will compile with Fink, but I've not been able to get it to compile with or without fink.
Doesn't anyone have an Octave binary for Mac OS X?
But would be happier with an Octave binary.
Octave can do things that Matlab can't, like use zero-based matrices, which makes porting to and from C a whole lot easier. What good is Matlab if you don't finish up with something that isn't interpreted? And don't you dare tell me to use the Matlab C generator, unless their library gets under the LGPL pronto!
Who has the Octave binaries? Fink isn't actually compiling it for me, and I get different errors on different OS X boxes. Help!
Octave has one thing that Matlab does not: zero-based matrixes. This makes porting to C much easier.
Sorry for the typo, it's Matlab with the zero-subscript bug, not Octave. I know this is a fortran/C thing, but if Octave can parameterize it, why can't Matlab?
Also, why isn't the Matlab C generator library under the LGPL?