<p>Well, I just looked at numbers. Windows has a market share of 87% across all its versions, which imo clearly makes it the dominant OS over Mac OS X with 7.5%.</p>
<p>That said, I could have used better word choice than industry. I’m sure that at most colleges you’ll see an excess of Macs, while if you go into supercomputer territory everything is Linux. Anyways, I was thinking industry as in consumer software. Like if you’re developing video games or viruses or whatever, you’re looking at Windows first.</p>
<p>And I never threw around names. Personal OS preferences for everyone. </p>
<p>@original topic
Laptops are better than desktops in every way, except power vs. price. For CS, you’re not running Crysis in 3D glassesless mode, so a laptop will really do.</p>