Sorry, BSL.
Either AZ's just joshing, or he's being a reprobate and deserves a thumping. Either way, don't let it get to you.
A little of both. I'm a reprobate at heart.
I loathe the Mac Cult and worked inside the pericardium of its rotting heart for about 5 years... in an upper middle class school district that oozed Macitis.
The simple facts of the environment were:
-All elementary schools were 100% macintosh.
-All junior highs were predominantly macintosh, with about 10% PC's for a handful of specific laboratory tasks in robotics labs.
-All high schools were predominantly PC, with the exception of:
*special education
*graphics labs
There were NO programming courses for Macs. There were 6 different programming languages with 3 levels of coursework each, for PC's.
One of the graphics labs committed the incorrigible sin of wanting to change to PC. They were told the software didn't exist, that the software costs would be too high, the support infrastructure in the district couldn't handle it, and a host of other mistruths.
Simply put, the MacHeads wanted job protection and if the per capita machine count of their systems dropped, they would lose staff (since none of them knew anything about supporting a professional computer environment consisting of enterprise grade server systems).
That teacher actually got his way after awhile. His classroom efficiency increased, and even found new software to augment his lab's capabilities that was not available on Mac.
So, in an environment with ~10,000 computers, the primary Mac users were either unsophisticated (non-programmers), young (K-8) or mentally handicapped (special education in high school).
Add to that: The MacHeads, when a new paper-pusher would arrive at the district, would lobby like mad to get that person on a Mac instead of a PC. The software load of a typical paper-pusher involved:
-Data input via AS-400 telnet terminal (wimpy-easy program that is a command line interface)
-Email client software
-MS Office
-Web browser
This can be done with a PC to meet the goals of the business for ~$750, or with a Mac for ~$1250, back then.
I'm a software engineer of 16 years' experience. I started with an original IBM PC, and DOS 2.0, back in '84. Since then, I've used every flavor of DOS and Windows, and a relatively broad selection of the flavors of Unix (SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, BSD), VMS, a goodly number of Linux flavors, and MacOS.
I'm also a software engineer, been doing it for about 2 years now after about 10 years in network administration and engineering and light code hacking/tweaking. I've written software for many different environments... and I've supported the end user desktop of many OS's, including even an LTSP Linux lab of thin clients, along with hundreds of PC's and Macs.
I'll admit to taking a pot-shot at the MacCult any time I can. From my experiences with the platform and OS, they have earned the criticisms. The uninformed should be better educated in regards to computers (cost versus performance, the power of the right click, the real story on software available for both platforms, hardware design that deliberately damages components, the list goes on). The cultists should be... something. Sterilized, euthanized, hydrolized, catalyzed and pasteurized would be a good process IMO. Run out of schools for wasting taxpayer money would be a good starting point.