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Re:Why I Develop For The Mac by claudius on Sunday May 05, 2013 @01:36PM (#5659068)
How are his points regarding computational performance and local handling of large amounts of data misinformed?

There’s a reason why there is Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica.

Re:Why I Develop For The Mac by drivebyacct2 on Sunday May 05, 2013 @02:08PM (#5659168)
You're right of course, I didn't mean "all" of it by any means. In fact, last night I lamented about web app overhead and the effect on performance. That having been said, it doesn't make his bits about graphics acceleration, local caching or storage any less inaccurate.