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Scientists love MacBooks (true) – but what about you?

gareth husk

Macs are old school

So my first gig as a post-grad 1984, macs. Only for doc prep but the other option was nroff. Two years later as I'm writing my thesis MS Word appears. WYSISYG huge docs (multiple floppy file linking), integration with MacDraw & MacPaint. Macintoshes saved our asses back in the mid-80s when the PC was basically random.

There was a really bad period when Apple lost the plot but when they finally came back we had same interface, same apps AND UNIX.

A long time later I'min a commercial operation, at work OSx is 1% of installed base... but we're a microsoft house, its .NET, SQL Server... At home though, in the interest of not doing the same at home as work we run OSX and android.

I spend way less time on IT support and ... durn that dubious game doesn;t run on Mac - tough cookies

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