How critical is stereo visualization for you? Macs are great with Zalman, but have fallen behind (again) with active stereo (ie. shutter glasses).
I will disclaim that I haven't revisited stereo visualization in about 1 year so my info is dated. HTH, Chris From: Jacob Keller <j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu<mailto:j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu>> Reply-To: Jacob Keller <j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu<mailto:j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu>> Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012 10:29 AM To: "CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>" <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Various OSes and Crystallography Are there no closet windows-users on this list to respond? Shall we have a coming-out day? Question--do macs have multiple-button mice? Last I checked they had only one button, which seemed almost criminal. JPK On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Quentin Delettre <q...@hotmail.fr<mailto:q...@hotmail.fr>> wrote: Le 09/08/2012 16:58, Nat Echols a écrit : On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Jacob Keller <j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu<mailto:j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu>> wrote: one. Are there any really reasonable arguments for preferring Mac over windows (or linux) with regard to crystallography? What can Mac/Linux do that windows cannot (especially considering that there is Cygwin)? What wonderful features am I missing? Mac vs. Linux: mostly a matter of personal preference, but I agree with Graeme. Most programs run equally well on either - with Coot a partial exception, apparently due to problems with the X11 implementation (but once you get used to these, it's not a big deal). Windows, on the other hand, simply doesn't support the full range of modern crystallography software. And in my experience, it has crippling flaws that mean some programs will always work better on Mac/Linux. I wouldn't ever endorse trying to use Windows for serious scientific computing unless you need to run an application that won't work on any other OS, and as far as I know there isn't a single (macromolecular) crystallography program that falls into this category. -Nat I have seen that in the last Mac Os, X11 have been removed... But can still be used with some package installation. -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu<mailto:j-kell...@northwestern.edu> *******************************************
