Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @07:12AM from the budget-for-replacement-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes My daughter is in her third year of college as a physics major. She has an internship in Europe this summer, will graduate next year, and continue with graduate physics studies. Her area of research interest is in gravitational waves and particle physics. She currently has a laptop running Win7 and wants to buy a new laptop. She would like to use Linux on it, and plans to use it for C++ programming, data analysis and simulations (along with the usual email, surfing, music, pictures, etc). For all of the physics-savvy Slashdotters out there: what should she get? PC? Mac? What do you recommend for running Linux? For a C++ development environment? What laptop do you use and how is it configured to support your physics-related activities? Do you have a question to Ask Slashdot? Fire away, with details, using our submissions form.

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Re:Why not a Mac? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-18 08:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

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But this is what Apple fanboys do. They're like Muslims--they either convert you or fill your ears with so much crap you jump off a bridge to get away from them.
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