Xanda SchofieldInterview
Computer science lecturer, Cornell
Adapted from Xanda Schofield's interview on Uses This, published 18 December 2018. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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Right now, my main go-to laptop is a 2016 Surface Book with a 256 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM, and a dual-core Intel i5 processor.
Before this, I was using a refurbished Macbook happily for several years.
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My only complaint is that sometimes exporting to PDFs can be a pain: OneNote 2016 did this well, but OneNote for Windows 10 does not.
I was a big ShareLaTeX fan for years, particularly because I write a lot of papers last-minute with collaborators, so shared LaTeX editing is really helpful.