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To respond more directly to your question:

Yes you can get better tables with IPy if you remember to load a lib and call a function. With Beaker it just works by default.

Ditto for sharing, Beaker has one-click sharing to the web built in, with IPy you have to load an extension.

On the Mac, Beaker comes packaged as a native app that you just drag to Applications and the Dock.