Re: OT: PC vs. MAC (was:TECH: HELP!! idiotic keyboard problem)
| From: | Joseph B. <darkmoonman@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 19:38 |
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Folks, it all depends on which branch of science, and what the scientist is
doing:
. collecting data in real time & analysing it? I'd pick an RT version of
Linux on a pc with tightly-written hardware & software focused on the method
of collection and number crunching.
. analysing & synthesizing written text? I'd pick Windows XP on a pc with
hardware & software focused on storage with data-mining (a 3rd party
indexing feature, etc.)
. creating & displaying data symbolically (charts, diagrams, etc.), I'm pic
OS/X on a Mac.
>> FWIW, my experience is that artistics and humanistics types tend to
prefer
>> Macs, whereas maths/science/tech types tend to prefer Windows, Unix
and/or
>> Linux.
>
>I only know what I read in the papers:
>"The problem: Although many U.S. scientists and others depend on
>graphics-friendly Macintosh computers, the software selected by the
>government is not Mac-compatible."
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>The whole article is here:
http://tinyurl.com/b87ja (registration-- but no
>$$-- required for WaPo)