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His programs *will* run on a mac. I am also married to a physicist, the weatherdude. Weatherdude did his dissertation on a mac, the fortran part and the writing part both. It's tax programs that won't run on a mac, the pro ones. So I have to have a pc...supposedly they will run on the new macs, but I will have to wear out my current pc to find that one out. Meanwhile, all my other work is done on a mac.
It's a question of religion. Your physicist belongs to the wrong religion.
My physicist was mac from the start and has never looked back. We had one of those 'portable' ones with the 1 meg ram. Later, I had to use a pc at work and had to teach him how to use one (the tricks) when he was forced at work to use Windows. Macs have always been easier to use and more robust and they don't go obsolete every year.
Sorry you have a two religion household. I'll pray for him at the Altar of Mac and burn some incense, but I'm afraid he sounds rather set in his ways.
Nah. Showing him my reply won't do much. It's a question of religion, as we say in this household. The only thing you could do is let him play with one in a store and as you say he's too busy. But macs can do the scientific work.
I wonder if it's more worth the effort to switch to somebody--like an artist or writer--who is doing creative work, because we care more about the aesthetic, both the design and the user-friendliness of the interface. Whereas for J the computer is just a tool.
Oh god, you're right! It IS a religious difference!
Tell him to get a new Intel mac, which will literally run Windows. (And yes, most important Windows programs have Mac counterparts.) Macs have the advantage of being easy to upgrade, virus-resistant, and freakin' never going obsolite--I gave my 1999 Blue and White G3 Tower to a PC-using friend this Summer, and she expresses her love for it pretty much every time we correspons. A 1999 computer. That's just not possible with PCs.
Even my computer science professor is on record as liking Macs better. Also, Macs have a sense of the design aesthetic. And it's no secret that a lot of Windows operating-system advancements ape Mac advancements
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I highly recommend dragging him along the next time you go to the Apple Store. (Make it for something really inconsequential, so he's not all balking about being "stuck there" -- I do recommend getting a keyboard condom keyboard protector, a thin filmy piece of see-through plastic which helps when you're typing fast, makes the fingers a little stickier to the otherwise slippy metal keys. Non-Mac folks seem to be able to handle "let's just stop by" if they believe you'll be in & out
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I like Macs, I think they're just plain prettier than Windows... but I cannot bring myself to buy one, even when I have money. They don't feel as... customized? I don't know, when I bought my computer, I was able to choose just about everything. At the Apple website, it's all screen size, speed, and color. However, reading over the comments here, I've realized I have a ridiculously nerdy reason to like Macs. It's biodiversity! Monoculture dies out eventually, but biodiversity lets life go on!
Cheaper, more customizable, and more likely to be compatible with 90% of the stuff on the market.
I use an IPod, but only grudgingly. Mac is shiny, but I'm not really into their "and now buy a $50 adapter! and now a $50 otherthing! and a $50 somethingelse!"
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It's a question of religion. Your physicist belongs to the wrong religion.
My physicist was mac from the start and has never looked back. We had one of those 'portable' ones with the 1 meg ram. Later, I had to use a pc at work and had to teach him how to use one (the tricks) when he was forced at work to use Windows. Macs have always been easier to use and more robust and they don't go obsolete every year.
Sorry you have a two religion household. I'll pray for him at the Altar of Mac and burn some incense, but I'm afraid he sounds rather set in his ways.
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I will show him your entry and see what he thinks.
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I wonder if it's more worth the effort to switch to somebody--like an artist or writer--who is doing creative work, because we care more about the aesthetic, both the design and the user-friendliness of the interface. Whereas for J the computer is just a tool.
Oh god, you're right! It IS a religious difference!
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Even my computer science professor is on record as liking Macs better. Also, Macs have a sense of the design aesthetic. And it's no secret that a lot of Windows operating-system advancements ape Mac advancements ( ... )
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Okay, I'm really going to work on him now.
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However, reading over the comments here, I've realized I have a ridiculously nerdy reason to like Macs. It's biodiversity! Monoculture dies out eventually, but biodiversity lets life go on!
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I use an IPod, but only grudgingly. Mac is shiny, but I'm not really into their "and now buy a $50 adapter! and now a $50 otherthing! and a $50 somethingelse!"
FULL DISCLOSURE: My father works for IBM.
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Congrats!
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