My 0.02 pfennigs worth.....
I use a pc for everything that will run comfortably on a pc.
I use unix boxes for everything that will not run comfortably on a pc.
PC's and unix boxes are converging in their power, and potential, so that
the differences are becoming minor, and mainly in the user interface/os
interface.
If you want to do complex 3-d graphics, you are currently and for perhaps the
next 5 years, stuck with a workstation.
Thats's life....... now why don't we get back to the molecular biology.....
R.D. Keys, rdkeys at ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu