running mathematica on a pb here s another question by a hesitant powerbook purchaser i want to be able to run mathematica and would like to hear some comments from the gallery about this how much slower does the program run on a machine without an fpu namely a pb versus a machine with an fpu namely a pb what types of calculations get bogged down the most i primarily due moderately simple algebra integrals which can be dealt with analytically and plotting including d plots i don t do a lot of numerical work would a pb with a lot of memory and the very nice video port be sufficient or should i really try to get an fpu for this type of work is a pb with mb faster than a pb with or mb all comments appreciated please respond by email ross sbphy physics ucsb edu
