Listening to Jobs speak recently, I got the distinct impression that the end of the era of general desktop computers "PC's" may be on the horizon. Of course that's iPad sales rhetoric, but it may be that the public moves away from general computers and that surely will have implications for scientific computing.
Richard On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Andreas Förster wrote: > I've bitched enough about all things Mac, but this one's just too good to > pass on (from the article that Peter linked to): > > "The fundamental issue here is Lion's assumption that you don't know what > you're doing, and it's going to ensure you're protected from cock-ups that, > in your ignorance, you may make." > > The first half of that sentence has always been my major gripe with Mac OS. > If there just were a Pro version for those that know what they're doing, but > the iPadification of computing goes exactly the opposite way. > > > Andreas > >
