[anthonyb]

The quote on the Mac was actually:

  "You buy a Mac because you’re embarrassed that you ever used anything else."

The assumption there is that using a Mac will make you orders of magnitude more productive as an engineer. Possibly, if you're comparing it to Windows, but that's a real stretch for Linux, particularly given the level of support online and cost (likely $0, if you can snag an old PC).

Although there's the argument that that's likely what they're already used to, and trying to learn two things at once is probably going to stunt their growth.

A pity, since most of the rest of the article was spot-on.