Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:51:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> Cc: "Murk Fletcher" <murk.fletcher@gmail.com>, "Christian Baer" <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>, "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop Message-ID: <17240.128.135.52.6.1465577513.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <867fdxnh82.fsf@WorkBox.Home> References: <nj9kmu$7r8$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAH=3fOMnkKg2Jr4o=S2YYRE2KNoN5uBB0EMKHBHM_1Nr-10qEQ@mail.gmail.com> <867fdxnh82.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
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On Fri, June 10, 2016 11:25 am, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: > > Murk Fletcher writes: > >> Hi! >> >> You sound like a creative person. As am I, therefore nothing but the >> latest >> MacBook Pro will do it for me. Product design-wise nothing even comes >> close, and the clearness and beauty of the retina screen not only makes >> it >> easier for your eyes, it also makes your work seem more appealing as you >> get to see it in greater details. >> >> I usually remove OS X, install Windows 10 with Classic Shell and other >> simplifications, and then run FreeBSD/OpenBSD inside VirtualBox. I >> therefore get the best of all worlds; all my Unix needs covered via >> PuTTY >> to localhost, plus the ability to run Adobe, Ableton etc. applications >> which Windows does a lot better than OS X. > > Putting aside how utterly insane this sounds, it should go without > saying that if someone is asking what hardware to buy then they intend > to run on bare metal, because if you're running in a VM it doesn't > matter what hardware you buy. > Indeed. I remember some 10 or 15 years ago someone said: having a mac is like driving ferrari. Ford or subaru will get you around same well, but but ferrari gives you that chic ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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