Hi, Like Adrian, I've had good experience doing intensive off-line analysis of flow data on a Powerbook G3 laptop running FlowJo (check out www.treestar.com for prices and licensing options; you can get a free limited-time demo license for a test-drive). The FlowJo license we bought currently runs Flowjo 2.7.8 on a 266 Mhz "beige" desktop G3, under MacOS 9.0.4 and multiple-users ON (OSX is still in beta testing phase and neither Cellquest nor FlowJo are native OSX applications today). I often have to acquire >100000 events/5 parameters per sample for my experiments but the analysis really flies on this G3, and it's even snappier on my 300 Mhz G3 laptop. I even (BD's gonna hate that) performed event acquisition straight from the FACStation (an old upgraded Quadra) to the Powerbook over Ethernet. With the new G4 tower FACStations and Powerbooks (besides more processing power) you have the added option of wireless networking for transfer/backup of data after acquisition. Check out www.apple.com/airport for a clear explanation. As for the PC issue, our dept. is primarily a PC network with a file server running Novell Netware. Netware can talk to Appletalk networks through a user-transparent interface on the Mac side (NT provides this too, albeit slower as far as I've heard). We used to back up gigs of FCM data from the Mac network to a PC file server without any problem. Feel free to mail for any additional questions Karim > >We are interested in buying a MAC for off-line analysis. Since we have a > >shortage of desk/bench space, there is interest in perhaps getting a > >notebook instead to run Cellquest. I have noticed discussions about OS9, > >OSX, and other compatability issues. Are there any additional concerns we > >need to be worried about. Yes, I have advised the investigator to call BD > >before he places the order for the MAC, which should probably be sufficient. > >I am mostly interested in a heads up for what to look for, since our lab is > >a PC/NT/Win9x lab. > > > >Thank you in advance for your help on this relatively simple question. > > > >Doug > > > > > >
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