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Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
Watch NOVA sometime, and be sure to catch the episodes about the Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers. You know, the ones designed for a 90-day operational lifetime but have been going for nearly 2.5 years?
Be sure to take note of the notebook computers the engineers and scientists are all using.
Mac TiBooks, all of them.
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So are you saying that Mac product is NOT sharply honed in on the average consumer? -- I think it is.
Also, since you see Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers as thee example,
consider this; they where designed with Windoz based software.
...built in SolidWorks, analysis using COSMOSWorks and COSMOSFloWorks; animation and simulation with PhotoWorks and SolidWorks Animator; ...
to rendering
to Mars
Though, I do imagine that many of the engineers used Macs for surfing the web, or listening to music.