<p>“some of your previous comments truly suggested that to you and your wealthy phd friends, the macbook was more of a status symbol”</p>
<p>It looks like some of your posts are getting zapped.</p>
<p>I do development work on Windows and Mac OSX in my spare time and having a MacBook Pro makes that possible. One of the other reasons why I bought a Penryn-based MacBook Pro was to play around with the SSE4.1 Vector Instructions. I bought a Nehalem system to play with SSE4.2 and to get an idea of just how fast this new beast from Intel runs. Furthermore both kids have MacBook Pros and mine made for a nice backup system for theirs should anything happen to their systems.</p>