Quote - Well, I do think education has something to do with knowledge. I have no degree, but work at the largest nuclear power station in the U.S. with instrumentation and controls. My work often involves PLCs (ladder logic programming, as well as computer control systems). I also worked in aerospace, materials research, and worked with analytical instrumentation. I worked with computers since the DEC PDP-11 LSI series, Modcomp, tape readers, drum memory, etc..

So do I get lambasted because I've been a science geek most of my life?

The integrated Macs are not so hot for the $$, but the Mac Pro is entirely different. It's a rendering monster, and is built with an aluminum chassis that is about twice as thick as the Chinese stuff sold all over the web. The keyboard is solid aluminum, but I don't like the feel of the keys. The mouse is...a stupid, but "cool" design. Overall, the computer is the best built PC box I've ever owned. And, the Mac OS is much nicer, albiet, lacking a 64-bit version of Vue. Using Bootcamp to run a Vue sesion is no big deal for me.

Precisely and well stated. There are only a couple of people that are making this personal and refusing to accept known facts and read the actual statements made by others like myself. I have been misquoted, my education questioned, personally insulted and even baited into a flame war.

I think me and you both agree, as I said here many times, it is of no concern or matter to me personally what you use. But known facts are just that and you can't make up your own conjecture to fit your personal views.

This is still a valuable thread as I have been thanked by several members here via PM for taking the time to give such detailed information. Again, all of this can be supported by educating yourself with publications/podcasts liike: Maximum PC, Mac World, Tekzilla, Toms Hardware, TWIT (This Week In Tech), Macbreak Weekly, etc.

Here is yet another supported fact outside Mac only publications on market share. Windows losing market share to Mac and Linux. www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41291/140/

Happy rendering.

Jeff

Development on: Mac Pro 2008, Duel-Boot OS - Snow Leopard 10.6.6 & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , 10GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.