Hardware question

[Alexander,J]

This is a question less about Swarm and more about hardware on which to 
(possibly) run Swarm.
 
My apologies for posting this here, but I thought that many people who 
subscribe to this list
might have the experience required to answer this question.
 
Because of a theft, I need to get a new laptop which will, in part, be used for 
modelling research,
ideally with Swarm.  My previous laptop was an IBM running SuSE Linux and 
worked,
more-or-less, fine.  However, I've been seriously considering one of the Mac 
PowerBooks running OSX.
>From what I can tell, no one has (yet) got Swarm to run under OSX, but several 
>people are close; and
the primary problem with running Swarm under OSX has been that not all of the 
necessary toolkits (tcl/tk, gcc,
etc.) officially support OSX in the latest release (although beta versions do). 
 From what I've read,
if one is willing to do a bit of hacking, it's possible to get a number of 
programs originally written
for linux to work with OSX -- including, eventually, Swarm.
 
If you've had experience with both linux and OSX, especially regarding Swarm, 
I'd really like to hear 
about it, and what your recommendation is at the end of the day.
 
Thanks,
 
Jason

         


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