I've seen this mentioned on here a couple of times and was hoping to upgrade...those who have used it do you use a mac or a PC? My library has it for mac and even amazon seems to indicate it's not been released yet for PC, is this right?

I do have a mac but don't really use it. How similar is spss on a mac? I hate the office programmes on it.

sorry put on wrong forum. Can this be moved to current PhD students? or should I re post?

I think SPSS was renamed to Pasw (for version 18 - it's PASW statistics 18) and then back to spss again. Anyway, we're now at version 19 for the PC (http://www.spss.com/software/statistics/) and you can download a 14 day trial.

Why did they change the name? makes no sense. I have 18 for mac now so will try it. Would try the 14 day trial bu might drive me mad when the time is up! Just have to wait for the uni to hurry up and update itself as it still have version 17 (I'm still on 16 on my uni computer how 2007!)