Warren, > Right now, I would only buy a straight Linux desktop for ideological rather > than practical reasons. If you instead buy a Mac "Pro", you get the ability > to run all three operating systems simultaneously, at native CPU speeds, and > on an as-needed basis thanks to virtualization. Right now, Mac is the best > way to go for desktop or for laptop.
Does cost count as an ideological reason? I wouldn't argue that stereo on proprietary systems generally works with less trouble (at least for the sgi's and alpha's; haven't had a chance to play around with Mac's yet). > For example, I am currently emailing from native Outlook 2003 running under > Windows XP inside Parallels under Mac OS X Tiger on a Intel-based MacBook > Pro, which also happily runs Vista and SUSE. Surreal! Slightly off-topic, but does parallels support OpenGL acceleration? I seem to remember hearing that there was work being done on this, but I'm not up to date on the virtualization stuff (you've definately got me beat for cool virtualization tricks...the only useful thing I've done w\ a vm is a svn server on a usb stick). Pete Pete Meyer Fu Lab BMCB grad student Cornell University
