I am also from Europe and I have a pretty hackerish feeling about macs. In the 90s, we developed a large science application in our lab for the Atari ST. When

I am also from Europe and I have a pretty hackerish feeling about macs. In the 90s, we developed a large science application in our lab for the Atari ST. When our last ST broke down, we used a Macintosh Performa instead that came with an Atari Emulator. Everything worked fine and the old ST application, that ran a complex atomic physics experiment, was even faster on the Mac. It also did a job sharing with an eltec lab computer, like the Atari did before. Although this was by far not a hacker job, we felt pretty cool with the good old Mac. It also saved a phd thesis that could not have been finished without that program. In science, Macs always were a (strong) minority in the labs, even in Europe. Today they are in the process of becoming a majority and replace linux (there are only a few windows machines that could be replaced ;o).