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On the contrary, most people I know outside of my immediate work surroundings (which is skewed by working around a lot of startups) bought their own Macbook (or
by toomanybeersies 10y ago
On the contrary, most people I know outside of my immediate work surroundings (which is skewed by working around a lot of startups) bought their own Macbook (or had their parents buy it, as it were). They were very popular among the arts and commerce crowd at university.
Macbooks seem to have cornered the 18-25 female demographic for computers.
- herbst 10y agoMaybe in the US. I've seen personal macs mostly on rich kids (ie. Parents paid for it) or graphic designers.
- toomanybeersies 10y agoI'm based in New Zealand, not the US. I see macs more among developers, but that's because I don't tend to hang around privileged rich kids that much these days, since I work for a living. When I was at university though, the vast majority of computer science students were running either Linux or Windows. I think on the balance of it, it was mostly Windows, but the Linux users seemed to get better grades and had a better idea of what they were doing. Macbooks were the computer of choice for the Arts and Commerce faculty students (most of whom, incidentally, did not have jobs).