About matlab in MacOS

I used matlab in MacOS for many days. I think this edition is not the edition for mac. It's simulation edition in linux. There many bugs for this version. When will the mac version come out?

[Chris Foreman]

I am using 2011b on Snow Leopard. Simulink is still in X11, however, when you open object parameters or even go to save the file, the dialog box for these is in the MacOS. Sometimes you can switch between these but it stops switching between X11 and MacOS after a few times. Basically, Simulink cannot be used on MacOS. I would rather the entire implementation be in X11. At least then, there would not be the confusion and failures associated with switching between user environments.

By the way, I have never been able to exit Matlab 2011b. Force quit is the only way it shuts down.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

The MAC version of MATLAB has never been handled by Linux simulation.

It was originally an OS-X port of the Unix X11 graphics based versions (such as for Sun and SGI), but quite a bit of integration work has been done to make the interface more native.

Apple has gone through several different graphics models for OS-X, sometimes making things easier and faster, and sometimes making them slower and more difficult. It is thus not nearly as easy a matter as just writing core graphics once with an "Apple interface" and then concentrating on the language and library: MathWorks has to keep rewriting the graphics for OS-X.

And unfortunately Java keeps changing too, and the Oracle (Sun) ports of Java to OS-X do not always come out entirely stable :(

[Jan]

@Walter: Is there really a method to "simulate Linux" in OS-X?!

[Walter Roberson]

You could use one of the virtualizers to create a virtual PC in OS-X and load Linux in to that virtual PC ;-)

Answer 2

[Thomas]

Matlab is availble for the MAC OSX 64 bit. I have been using it for a long time and works fine. It had some bugs in the parallel computing toolbox R2009a, after that most everything seems to have been fixed.

As of R2011b Matlab is available for

Windows 32, 64 bit MAC OSX 64 bit Linux 32, 64 bit

[Walter Roberson]

There are, though, a number of reports about random crashes for R2011b on OS-X, especially with Lion.

[Thomas]

Good point.. I haven't tested MALTAB with OSX Lion. I haven't had any crashes with snow-leopard yet and I use it as a front end for cluster computing as well.