Graphpad Prism System Requirements

Prism for Macintosh runs under Mac OS 8.6 through 9.4, and OS X 10.1 and up. Prism for Mac does not operate under the original OS X 10.0. Your screen must have a resolution of 1024 x 768 in OS X, or 800 x 600 in OS 8.6 9.2.

Prism requires 12 megabytes of space on the hard drive. We recommend using a computer with at least 32 megabytes of RAM.

Both Windows and Macintosh versions of Prism require Internet Explorer version 3 or later. You don't have to use it as your default browser, but Prism uses Internet Explorer to display help topics and also to send files via ftp (when you ask it to).

Differences between Graphpad Prism for Windows and Graphpad Prism for Macintosh

• When you copy and paste a graph created with Graphpad Prism Windows into another program such as Word or PowerPoint, you can embed an entire Prism object or paste a link to the Prism file. You can then double-click on the graph from within Word or PowerPoint to edit the graph with Prism. Since the Mac OS does not support Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), you can only paste a picture of a Graphpad Prism graph into another program. Double-clicking on the pasted graph does not launch Graphpad Prism.
• Graphpad Prism Windows can embed objects (for example, equations) created by other programs. You double-click on an object to edit with the program that created it. Graphpad Prismfor Macintosh, however, does not support Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) since Microsoft has not updated it's OLE components in more than 5 years. With Graphpad Prism Mac, you can copy and paste pictures from another program, but you need to go back to the original file in order to edit with the other program.
• When you paste Excel data, Prism Windows can embed the entire workbook within Prism, or maintain a link between Graphpad Prism and the Excel file. With Graphpad Prism Mac, you simply paste the values from Excel. Graphpad Prism Mac cannot maintain a link to the Excel file.
• Graphpad Prism Windows lets you post any graph or layout (or all graphs or all layouts) to SmartDraw.net. You can then email a link to your colleagues to view your graphs. Graphpad Prism Mac lets you post to your own web site, but does not let you post to SmartDraw.net.