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<p>I’ve seen plenty of engineering/CS majors at various Engineering schools/divisions using Macs because of the hardware build quality and the fact OSX also has unix under the hood so it’s convenient for learning about/using unix. </p>
<p>With virtualization software, they also have no issues installing other OSes such as Gentoo linux, Windows XP/7, etc. </p>
<p>More importantly, most hardcore techies have had little issues with adapting to different operating system environments…a useful trait to have in the technical world. Granted, my experience has mostly been with CS/CE majors…some of whom are more platform agnostic than I am.</p>