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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51225 is a reply to message #51216]

Sun, 05 November 2006 12:39

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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Having spent five weeks in Hawaii last year in the
> company of astronomers, I witnessed this dramatic
> enthusiasm for Macs, and also noted the almost
> universal inverse correlation of this enthusiasm
> with UNIX knowledge.

My experience is that the correlation you noted in Hawaii is anomaly,
and that the dramatic rise in Mac use among astronomers comes mainly
from defections from Linux users, who are already familiar with Unix.
My MacBook is arriving this week and I am leaving the Linux world with
some regret that its limitations (e.g. the expertise required to be a
system administrator & applications that never really matched those of
the Mac/PC world) couldn't be overcome. The ability to run Unix on
a Mac for my compute-intensive scientific applications is its big
selling point for me (along with the ability to boot Windows if I need
to.)

Like Jeff Hester, I would also like to see a writeup and/or a forum on
making the the transition from Linux (or Windows) IDL to Mac IDL,
though right now I can't contribute much. I do notice that if you
search the IDL tech tips (http://www.ittvis.com/services/search.asp )
for the Mac-Intel platform that you get a dozen recent tips.

> I would put Paul van Delst's name forward
> as someone who can provide insight into why a researcher
> loves a machine that crashes 10 times a day. I will
> say, however, that the spinning desktop thing is WAY cool. :-)

Nobody loves a machine that crashes 10 times a day but this does not
seem to be a general OS problem but limited to a particular laptop
model in a particular setup. --Wayne

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		Re: Mac Cursor By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 November 2006 18:44
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 17:01
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 16:28
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 November 2006 16:11
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:57
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:51
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:46
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:42
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:27
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:12
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 12:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 12:06
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:35
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Tue, 07 November 2006 13:27
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:32
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:21
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 November 2006 21:16
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 06 November 2006 11:09
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 06 November 2006 10:44
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 November 2006 10:31
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Mon, 06 November 2006 09:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: news.verizon.net on Sun, 05 November 2006 12:39
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Sat, 04 November 2006 07:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Jeff Hester on Fri, 03 November 2006 21:56
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 November 2006 17:14
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Edd Edmondson on Thu, 09 November 2006 03:08
		Re: Mac Cursor By: James Kuyper on Thu, 09 November 2006 03:37
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 November 2006 18:46
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Thu, 09 November 2006 11:47

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