[danford]

>At the last conference I attended, ~9/10 engineers were running macbooks

They're both tired tropes. There is a pretty reasonable mix of hardware and software run by 'engineers' and no where near 90% are macs.

edit: https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey#workspaces/2496

That site has some pretty good statistics related to OS usage among programmers and some hardware usage, like iPod/iPhone, which I think is a decent indicator of whether or not these people own macs.

[vacri]

I went to a security conference about a year ago, and not being a security guy, I was surprised to see about half the people using Windows.

This being said, I am a little sad to see the prevalence of OSX-based laptops in 'hacker spaces', partly because I don't like Apple's practices, but mostly because diversity is one of the things that makes a hacker to me; the ability to make anything turn tricks. To see a monoculture starting to emerge is a little sad.

[Pxtl]

I tend to assume this has more to do with the piss-poor state of windows laptop manufacturers than with Apple. I'm sure those guys run Linux or Windows on their desktops, but seriously you expect them to put up with a heavy and crudware-riddled HP? A fragile Lenovo? A monstrously ugly MSI? A cheap Dell that falls apart the day the warranty runs out?

[vacri]

'Fragile' Lenovo? Using a cheap Dell as a comparator? Not trying to stack the deck there?