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£2050+VAT = yowsers.

300 for non-commercial use.

Also based on the Mathematica 10 kernel is the Programming Cloud which you can try for free: http://www.wolframcloud.com/

I don't know if it is launch-day blues, but on new MacBook Pro, the demo notebooks are sluggish, and some of the examples throw errors.

And it uses "CTRL" to mean "Command", throughout. Tantalizing, but not a perfect first-impression, and it reinforces the feeling the I'd be let down if I stray from the path of polished examples and into real work.

...and it seems I corrupted the master copy of the "Things to Try" notebook -- clicking on the link again, from the home page, launches the corrupted notebook I made earlier.

Honest question, who uses Mathematica commercially? What industries?

There's some customer stories at: http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/customer-stories/

I do. I use it as an advanced calculator for doing complex mathematics too hard to deal with by hand. To answer what industries, I do everything from semiconductor device physics to databases and machine learning.

Or you can get Raspi, I believe it already had pre-release version of the version 10 for while.

Just, it will be slow...

Can the RPi version use Wolfram Cloud to speed it up?

You can see it rendering its buttons and menus.. slowly. Typing may take 10 seconds to respond. It is completely unoptimized for ARM, or at least was when I tried it.

It's true it can't use libraries like the Intel Performance Primitives on ARM, but that's not why the UI is slow on RPi. RPi's UI is slow because all graphics-intensive GUI stuff on RPi is slow. Firefox is unusable, for example.

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