[Baypiggies] hardware question

Jason Culverhouse jason at mischievous.org
Fri Dec 24 02:10:22 CET 2010


Just my 2 cents, 6 years python development on Mac (g4 and x86) and deployment on Ubuntu, no problems encountered on Mac  that didn't have some analogue on Ubuntu.
Jason

On Dec 23, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Alexandre Conrad wrote:

> What I would do: I'd take a mac and install Ubuntu. So you get the nice hardware with the nice OS and don't have to worry about Python compatibility issues (my co-workers most of the time struggle compiling C extensions).
> 
> FYI, I am an ex-Windows user that switched to Ubuntu 2 years ago and got a nice Mac from work 3 months ago. I felt like a baby giraffe learning on how to stand on its legs on a frozen lake. Two days later I returned it for a Thinkpad. I later learned I could install Ubuntu on a Mac (doh!). According to my co-worker, using the latest Ubuntu worked just fine out of the box on his Mac. There was only one tweak required for the webcam to work (a quick Google search tells you how).
> 
> If you are a Windows user, I am not sure this helped you though. Well that said, I think I'd install Windows if I can't get along with Mac OS. :)
> 
> Sent from my fantastic HTC Hero
> 
> 
>> On Dec 23, 2010 2:14 PM, "Vikram K" <kpguy1975 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Recently i got funding to buy a new laptop. The choice is between Apple (which i have never ever used),  or HP/Dell. 
>> 
>> Since most of my computational work will be using python i wanted to ask others on this forum about whether there would be any compatibility issues with using the various python libraries (matplotlib, scipy, numpy, Biopython, etc.) when using Python on the Mac.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Vikram
>> 
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