It seems to me that there would be a massive demand to be able to work entirely in OS X by researchers for whom computing is a secondary task (I've seen this a

It seems to me that there would be a massive demand to be able to work entirely in OS X by researchers for whom computing is a secondary task (I've seen this a lot in my neurobiology department). Most of these people are only knee-deep in the computing world, and learning Linux is not worth it to them. I know several researchers just getting into machine learning for their image processing/CNN projects, and they're just living with the speed of a 3+ year old Mac Pro, though they have the funding and desire to add plenty of GPU acceleration. Is there something else out there or in development that would help here?