on 10/2/01 4:01 PM, Ron Darlington at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dr. Frank (& anyone else) > Just as a sidebar out of curiosity. What role does Macintosh play in the > work that you do. Out of blind ignorance I would suppose the PC would rule > your world of special apps. I am a Mac user by default. My first machine was > the wonderful 128k acquired barely used in 1985.
I know 2 friends who do scientific work that use macs... One hates it as he is a windows user, and the other loves it. I know one of them uses them because of the g4... The apps are SO specialized it doesn't matter what platform they're working on as hardly anyone else will be using it... Its custom built... and the altivec just screams for what they have to do apparently, especially the new quicksilvers... I guess they added extra altivec units or something, as he said they went from dual 533's to dual 800's and started getting insane speeds. Maybe a lot of it is the university hold-over? Apple still has a really good university presence. Lol, on a side note it seems like macs have a disporportinate user base with lawyers for some reason... Which was hard for me to understand. On the other hand, high-end CAD and kitchen/design software is dying on the mac... Those vertical markets are what comes to mind when I think about the vertical markets which are all oriented towards PC's. -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
