Big Sur compatible?
I'm about to tell students to download JASP for the stats class I teach. For Macintosh, I see it's compatible with Catalina and earlier, but there is no mention of Big Sur. Do I need to warn my students about this?
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Hello, I am one of the programmers or JASP. I work on Big Sur and can assure you JASP works fine on it.
There is one problem, Mac has brought out new chips in the very latest iMac mini. And we have no clue whether JASP works on it. Apple added some compatibility layer and it might work, or not. I havent heard anyone about this. But it is also quite unlikely that one of your students already has one of these. Those macs can be recognized as containing "M1" or "Apple Silicon".
Thank you!!!!
I can confirm JASP runs well on my M1 mac mini with Big Sur.
Only one thing I noticed : When I select "safe graphics mode" in the prefereces - interface
The app becomes very choppy and unresponsive.
Hey jasper2,
Thanks for letting us know it works.
That JASP gets choppy in safe graphics mode on M1 is not so strange. Safe graphics means all rendering is done in software instead of on a graphics card, which usually is quite a bit slower than on hardware.
Running on M1 however means all the machine-language-code that is being run is converted on the fly into a quite different machine-language-code specifically for M1 and I guess that goes too slow for running graphics.
Yes, I think so, too. Thanks for this great program!