That said, it sounds like it might be a hassle to get that to work on a Mac.

I got the personal license of Mathematica for Mac a while ago and thought the price was reasonable for such a powerful system.

The only thing that was driving me nuts is that Mathematica does not work properly on a Retina display, which of course is a shame as text and graphics would look gorgeous. Support for that is only planned for the next major version, according to Wolfram (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/30104/10565).

I recently found a hacky fix: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/21158/10565

With that, Mathematica now looks fantastic on my MacBook Pro's built-in screen.