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scientists I know have osx laptops and run jobs on linux compute clusters.

• walshemj 9y ago
  AKA an expensive way of running telnet or xwindows sessions - when a basic leveano or dell would be cheaper and run full fat office and not the cut down mac versions
  • robotresearcher 9y ago
    Research profs travel a lot, and thus enjoy battery life and light weight. Many CS and math profs live in LaTeX and shell and not Office. Mac is handy.
    • walshemj 9y ago
      And a lot more expensive in a bang for buck way.
      • robotresearcher 9y ago
        Depends how much you weight the battery life and form factor bang. And UNIXness. I value these a LOT. Also: trackpad. Apple's is the best by a mile.
  • make3 9y ago
    more like, having a beautiful ui experience with a full shell, and sending the heavy lifting to a machine made specifically for that
    • walshemj 9y ago
      That's a matter of opinion and finder is a terrible UI for a file manager for any one who has used windows or Linux file managers. And the way Apple has diverged from a more traditional UNIX like Linux is a big problem if you are developing to run on Linux as it adds a whole new set of risks.
  • make3 9y ago
    also got what is worth, modern version of Mac office are really good
    • walshemj 9y ago
      Ill give you that the latest version of office is an improvement you can go beyond 56K rows in excel now! but its still not as good as the real thing.