Originally Posted by benjamin

Its funny that you said he was ignorant and then agreed entirely with him. Way to be.

Speaking of ignorant, do you know what Solidworks is? He's talking about applications that are simply not available on any other platform. Additionally, in a setting like a machine shop, its nice to be able to use commodity hardware in your computers. Among other things, it makes it really easy to upgrade to something faster. If you thought Photoshop ran slowly, you'd be shocked at how long it takes to render in Solidworks. Frequent upgrades to a Mac become uber-expensive.