OT: PC vs. MAC (was:TECH: HELP!! idiotic keyboard problem)

Ph.D./Andreas Johansson, wrote:
> Quoting "Ph.D." <phil@...>:
>
> > Roger Mills wrote:
> > >
> > > Speaking of that, today's Washington Post had an
> > > article about electronic filing for a new Govt. grant
> > > program; seems all the application forms only work on
> > > Windows, not Macs. But most of the folks who'd be
> > > interested (scientists, mathematicians) prefer to use
> > > Macs.... go figure.
> >
> >
> > I don't want to get a Windows vs. Mac thread going,
> > but I'm surprised that you'd say scientists and mathe-
> > maticians prefer Macs. I know *artists* (especially
> > graphic designers) prefer Macs, but I thought most
> > science and math types were satisfied with Windows.
>
> 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."

The whole article is here: http://tinyurl.com/b87ja (registration-- but no
$$-- required for WaPo)