--Apple-Mail-14-841232478 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I just realized that I did not really address this part of your question clearly. I think the argument for Macs for the situation that Chip described is clear: You get a bioinformatics-capable environment with all the UNIX goodness in a desktop package (that a four year old can use ) that runs Microsoft and Adobe products with full support. Linux is not for everyone (yet); I would not recommend a Mac to everyone either. On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Duzlevski, Ognen wrote: > I am not anti-Mac, just curious to know what is an > actual benefit in even thinking about Macs in a cluster. > Dr. Stephen Wicks, Assistant Professor, Biology. Boston College. 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA. 02467. Phone: 617 552 6851 (office) Fax: 617 552 2011 Office: Rm 468 Higgins Hall e-mail: swicks@bc.edu --Apple-Mail-14-841232478 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>I just realized that I did not really address this part of your question clearly. I think the argument for Macs for the situation that Chip described is clear: You get a bioinformatics-capable environment with all the UNIX goodness in a desktop package (that a four year old can use ) that runs Microsoft and Adobe products with full support. Linux is not for everyone (yet); I would not recommend a Mac to everyone either. </fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>On</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>Thursday,</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>April</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>10,</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>2003,</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>at</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>02</fontfamily>:<fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>31</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>PM,</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>Duzlevski,</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>Ognen</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>wrote</fontfamily>: <excerpt><bold><fontfamily><param>Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro</param>I am not anti-Mac, just curious to know what is an actual benefit in even thinking about Macs in a cluster. </fontfamily></bold></excerpt><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param>Dr. Stephen Wicks, Assistant Professor, Biology. Boston College. 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA. 02467. Phone: 617 552 6851 (office) Fax: 617 552 2011 Office: Rm 468 Higgins Hall e-mail: swicks@bc.edu </fontfamily> --Apple-Mail-14-841232478--