Power Macintosh G3 or G4 running OS X (10.1.4 or later)
X Windows. The only supported version is the XFree86 X server (XDarwin) with the OroborOSX window manager; both are included with MATLAB. (Note: XFree86 requires approximately 100MB after it is uncompressed and installed onto your disk. To uncompress and install it onto your disk, you need an additional 40MB for the uncompressed file and 40MB for the actual installer. This space (80MB) is not needed after XFree86 is installed.)
90 MB free disk space for MATLAB only (215 MB to include MATLAB online help files)
128 MB RAM minimum, 256 MB RAM recommended
FLEXlm 8.0, installed by the MATLAB installer
Netscape Navigator 6.2 or above or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or above is required.
PostScript or Ghostscript supported printer
gcc compiler as provided on Apple's Development Tools CD to build C MEX-files, or Absoft Pro Fortran v7.0 for OSX to build Fortran MEX-files