Re: Advices on computer hardware
Posted by
Mark J. Chopping on
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> The Macs are pretty, but if you intend to write your own code, they're
> very hell to program on.... You'll get a really pretty computer for the
> price from Apple, but you'll get every bit as much computer for half the
> price from one of the PC vendors. Also, OS X doesn't manage memory
> well, so you will have to restart from time to time to clear it out if
> you're going through large datasets.
Anyone care to comment on this assessment of Mac/OSX? I wonder whether
the machines were comparable -- or is this the older Mac vs. new PC
chestnut (viz. "I do most of my image processing on an old Powerbook...")?
Is OSX' memory management really worse than other Unix implementations?
Best wishes,
Mark
Mark J. Chopping, Ph.D.
Associate Professor -- Remote Sensing
Earth & Environmental Studies ML350C
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043
Tel: (973) 655-7384 Fax: (973) 655-4072
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