From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jun 10 16:51:55 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649E5AD97A3 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:51:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4508F27CC for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:51:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 00CBFCB8CA2; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:51:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:51:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <17240.128.135.52.6.1465577513.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <867fdxnh82.fsf@WorkBox.Home> References: <867fdxnh82.fsf@WorkBox.Home> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:51:53 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Brandon J. Wandersee" Cc: "Murk Fletcher" , "Christian Baer" , "User Questions" Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:51:55 -0000 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++