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Originally Posted by filtherton
But then again, It's always interesting to me how someone can have a PhD in something like chemistry or mechanical engineering and know next to nothing about how computers do their thing.
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You have no idea... I work for the IT department for a large hospital/university. I would say 2% of the faculty that I work with are computer savvy, usually the younger ones.
We're mostly a mac shop because the chairman of my department is a mac guy. Let me tell you, mac enterprise BLOWS. Especially when the rest of the university is running Active Directory. I think Mac is definitely a consumer brand, even though they have tried their hand at enterprise. Support is terrible, software is buggy, and documentation is sparse.
That said, I'm happily using my MacBook the university bought me for my home computer with Windows XP installed through boot camp and accessible in OS X through Parallels. I also built a desktop with WinXP and have been slowly replacing the hardware to be OSx86 compatible (can I mention that here?). Games run fine in WinXP/Bootcamp, BTW.