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I dug up this shot of PyCon JP 2011: http://www.ianlewis.org/media/img/662/audience.jpg http://www.ianlewis.org/media/img/662/audience.jpg I count at least 8 M

by nknight 15y ago

I dug up this shot of PyCon JP 2011: http://www.ianlewis.org/media/img/662/audience.jpg http://www.ianlewis.org/media/img/662/audience.jpg I count at least 8 Macs, two more that may or may not be Macs. I don't see any blatantly non-Mac laptops. To be fair, I can't be sure it's not a session on, say, PyObjC, but I also found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimizukawa/6142969129/in/set-72157627536036671/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimizukawa/6142969129/in/set-7... Five Macs, possibly a sixth hiding behind one guy's head. Two non-Macs (one looks like a thinkpad and I think the one in the lower right is a vaio).

toyg 15y ago
The trend is undeniable, but there's some selection bias in your post: people with Macs do tend to flaunt them around, especially at geek gatherings where you find a lot of contractors/independent/superstar/fashion-victim developers who have a say in the hardware they use. You don't see the thousands of corporate developers with work-issued laptops nor the academic working on "big rigs"; they're not all uber-hackers but they're not all shit either. Apple adoption is also lower in Europe due to higher prices compared to NA and Japan. Last few times I've been to (Euro) Python conventions, I was actually surprised to see a lot of really skilled guys doing real computation (3d, molecular modelling etc) while happily running Windows on their laptops.