In Brief: Apple says that February 7 is the last date customers can order personalized iPod or mini units to get them for 80% of the Web sites on the market.
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I just completed my PhD. in engineering and I did it all on my PB550. That included design, implementation and instrumentation of experimental equipment. Mathematica, Matlab, and LabView are all available for OSX. Not to mention LaTeX and the unbeatable TexShop. It really depends on what you need done and how you get it done.
I whole heartly agree with the video, even though there were to many bottles of colored water just lying around.
Which was good. It was for the researcher, not the ipod junkie. Was more like a commercial for smart people.
I attend a big research/medicine university. And a lot (relatively) of our research is being done on the mac. Not 50% +, but a significant amount. Each department head/scientist has his/her own preference.
I do agree with umijin however, that I still see a lot of biege G3s running some ancient progam in OS 9, and apple would be well served to encourage some developers to update software.
contunation of the PR campaign to encourage both users and developers that we have seen since Big Mac and the genome type biological sytems that are selling like hot cakes.
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Macs for Science? Ha...
I'm a hard core Mac guy, and I can tell you the Mac is falling behind in some areas - especially molecular biology. No, I'm not talking about superclusters of G5 crunching scads of molecular data. I'm talking about basic molecular biology analysis applications.
Oh, there are some for the mac and they used to be top of the line... 5-6 years ago. The current versions are rarely updated and only run on OS 9 ('cept some Unix ports...). The best all around (and affordable) app out there for analyses is Mega, which is PC only. The developers (colleagues of mine) see no reason to make a Mac version because they have no funding. And theoretically you can use it on a Mac via Virtual PC - except for the fact that VPC CRAWLS so badly.
If Apple really wants to show it's commitment to science, it needs to help promote analysis tools in its current OS. Either update the old ones, or convert PC options. Superclusters don't help most of the "rest of us".