The same goes for different flavors of Windows. If that is a main-stream application, the probability that it will exist for Mac or Linux is high but many times, we want things that aren't so mainstream, and the probability becomes lower. For this reason, I can only recommend a Windows OS, because if you are using Windows then you are not restricted in what software is available to you - if there is software to do something, it will exist for windows, and it only might exist for Max or Linux. It doesn't do you any good to have a nice user interface if you cannot run critical software. The most important reason to choose 1 operating system over another is the software you will use. Which one of these machines could better handle a calculation in Matlab or C++ that could last ten minutes to a couple of hours without overheating? It is somewhat likely that I will be going into some type of computational physics in grad school and definitely a chance of me doing more computational physics this summer. Is there anything like Cygwin for a mac or at least free C++ compilers? Does anyone know how well Matlab runs on the macbook? So my question is which is better for me? I do not know too much about computers and I have never used a mac before. The programs that I use most often are Matlab, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Cygwin, and a free SSH/FTP program. I am a current physics undergrad and will be a physics grad next year. But none of them are not really physics people. Everyone I talk to that have used both mac and pc say to go for a mac. I have chosen these two because they are both right at my price range (they cost about the same) and because they both have a reputation of running cooly (which is very important to me) and fast for the amount of money being paid. I think that I have narrowed it down to two laptops:
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