<flames on>
Vista or XP, I shamelessly admit that I personally totally fail to
see why - ideology left aside - I would ever buy a *laptop* which is
not a Mac.
Even for the fact that when a Mac is "asleep" you open the cover and
it actually comes up in 1 sec, exactly where it was last evening, its
worth it !
I run MS Office (I actually do like Word), iWork (Keynote is what PP
might some day be ... Pages is great for eg posters),
iLife for home, Coot, O, CCP4, Phenix, ARP/wARP, Solve/Resolve,
Phaser, Pymol, Papers (!!! a dream that will not come true for
Windows-based scientists - http://mekentosj.com/), R, Adobe and all
work. And you also have Xcode, the GUI builder, management tools, and
others for development.
For the last 4 years I use a G4 as my laptop which is also my desktop
with external monitor and keyboard/mouse -
I have dropped it a couple of times, have been around the world,
still works. I only switched to Macs in 2001 and I am still happy.
And I did not even mention that it LOOKS better ;-))
<flames off>
Apologies for not answering the original question, but the discussion
was drifting this way.
I am now waiting to see what Vista can do that Windows cannot. I am
aware of one application I want and does not run on a Mac,
and that is the Polar Fitness software for my bike. Argh. Most
spyware and virus detection software also do not run in a Mac btw!
For a reason: you do not need them dudes !
A.
PS And no, I don't work for Apple, I don't get free gifts from Apple,
but if Steve is reading and he wants to send me a Mac Air for my kind
words, please, go ahead ! ;-)))
