The lab has a lot of computers in it, and each one is used for something different, so that means there are also a lot of different types of computers. The PCs are better for handling huge programs in the lab, while the Macs are better for running the lab displays. We use a special hardware called the Alienware, which is a Dell product, for running OpenSpace because it is such as a large program with so many JPL data sets in it. I use an Alienware laptop (it’s giant and really heavy) supplied by the lab in conjunction with my school laptop to get my research done,
but there is another Alienware computer in the lab that is a desktop. Alex, one of the other graduate interns, uses the Alienware desktop but unfortunately it’s been having some issues and keeps getting the blue screen of death. Apart from working on my research, Alex and I spent like an hour on the phone with Dell earlier today, trying to get it to work, but I think it needs to be sent off to a repair center!