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Take a Mac User to Lunch

Posted by pudge on from the any-place-that-has-good-steak-is-good-for-me dept.

A Slashdot reader writes "LinuxWorld is running a story explaining how Mac OS X may help break down the walls for non-Windows operating systems, including Linux."

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  1. Ate An Apple User For Lunch by airuck · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    An OSX user I know was impressed by Apples performance claims with BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) and challenged my dual AMD to a drag race. We went through some wild contortions to find a benchmarking condition in which his similarly priced Apple box could win a race (mucking about with word sizes), but the AMD box won by a significant margin.
    OSX will likely appeal to bioinformatics tool users as well as at least some tool makers.

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