macintosh/windoze rant! waaaaaaaay nklr

[Thomas Keener]

> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:54:20 -0700 > From: Sarah Barwig >Buy the tool you need for the job you're going to do.

Eloquently said, Sarah. I do high-end mechanical CAD using PRO/E, which has become the industry standard. Several years ago my company bench-marked HP, Sun & SGI Unix boxes. We switched from Sun Spark 20s to HP C240s because of performance. Since then, PRO/E came out with an NT version. I now have an NT box with a gig of RAM (yes, a gig) and it's significantly faster than Unix. Since there is no CAD package for the Mac that comes within ICBM range of PRO/E, the only reason I'd have a Mac is as a door stop. (There ain't enough room on my desk for a dedicated I-net gizmo.) TomK