Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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I do CS grad work and just got a powerbook as well. Haven't seen a huge number of them around my school, but I think that's due more to the attitude of some of the admin types here than the desire of students. Many of the admin's here simply hate anything proprietary. A lot of the workstations tend to run debian stable, which actually causes problems because it's so out of date at this point that some of the new scientific software won't even run on it.
We did get 3 new mac G5's though. But instead of giving them to students as workstations, the G5's were made into 2 headless computers and a guest computer. Given that our cluster is x86, headless mac's (which probably don't even run panther server) are completely useless. Mac's are good desktop machines, as servers I don't think Mac's have many advantages over Linux.