| Re: Best platform for IDL 6.2? [message #46354 is a reply to message #46353] |
Wed, 16 November 2005 04:15   |
jm
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Registered: April 2003
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1990: Started using Sun workstations.
1993: Began using PV-WAVE.
1996: Switched from PV-WAVE to IDL.
2002: Bought iMac for home and working-at-home use.
Hmmm... this iMac (800MHz, G4) is no slower at flat-out
number-crunching than my Sun Blade 1000.
Would be nice to sync filesystems at work and home using a FW drive.
Only, you can't. There are FW ports on the Sun Blade, but no drivers.
How dumb is that? Can I burn CDs/DVDs on the Sun? Yes, but it's a
bother. Ever tried running Windows on the SunPCI card? Yuk!
2004: Finally! A twin G5 replaces my "state of the art" Blade 2000.
What a relief.
2005: A Powerbook arrives. I can now take *all* my work with me when I
go to conferences: prepare/run simulations on the fly,
post-process/analyze data with IDL, work on documents/presentations,
etc. And it's a breeze to sync filestems between the work desktop, the
portable and the (home) iMac.
Really, it's no contest.
-John Mardaljevic
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