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Can a Macbook Air be considered a "Unix workstation" ?
by trollerator23 4y ago
Can a Macbook Air be considered a "Unix workstation" ?
- jckahn 4y agoI don’t see why it couldn’t.
- fkgmeqnb 4y agoOf course. Technically speaking, the Macs are the last commercial UNIX workstations.
- flyinghamster 4y agoAbsolutely - a very portable one, but modern Macs would absolutely qualify (and blow those classics out of the water in both computing power and low electricity consumption.
- thesuitonym 4y agoThe Open Group seems to think so: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3683.htm https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3683.htm
- cth 4y agoSeveral years ago while at a university for CS, I was doing a senior class where I was doing whatever an assigned professor wanted me to help with. I was given two identical ThinkPads and a mid-2012 MacBook Pro and told to figure out a network partitioning problem involving virtual machines. Since the ThinkPads were running Windows, those were pretty forgettable. But as soon as I opened up the MacBook Pro and turned it on, my first thought was "This is a workstation." At the time my personal laptop was a 11" MacBook Air. Currently I use a 2014 Mac mini and a mid-2012 MBP, which I bought used because of that faithful encounter. I've never been able to elicit that initial reaction I had to the MBP since owning one myself. It's one of those things like how a single bite of someone else's food tastes better than the whole dish you end up ordering for yourself. As an aside, I bought a SPARCstation IPC for $25 from someone on IRC around 2001.
- cth 4y agoOh, and by the way, the PowerBook G4 was advertised as a portable supercomputer in the keynote if I remember correctly!