> ...any laptop is just a big step down from a real machine... A friend (age ~30) works on very large-scale climate model comparisons. He directs his model ru

> ...any laptop is just a big step down from a real machine... A friend (age ~30) works on very large-scale climate model comparisons. He directs his model runs (done on a remote supercomputer, which is his version of a "real machine") from his 13" Air. I work with smaller datasets, and it's kind of amazing what power he can command from that little thing. He uses a dock to make visualizations on a larger monitor when at his desk.