Schools for the Wealthy Elite

cobrat
Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:35:12 +0000

That is funny , cobrat, about the Apple stores,etc. Some of that probably relates to what type of engineering the person is in.



What’s more funny is how Apple went from being heavily disdained alongside Windows as being computers/operating systems for computer/tech idiots in the estimation of most hardcore engineering/CS aspirants/majors during my HS/college years to becoming one of the darlings of many in that very same group. Some of those engineering/CS grads were themselves Apple haters back in the '90s…but by the '00’s were certifiable fanboys.

The main factors seem to be the combination of the powerPC with OSX…which they’d always love to point out is built on top of a variant of BSD unix as opposed to previous Mac OSes which had no techie cred among them. The move to intel made little difference one way or another.

While most of those road trip friends were EE/CE/CS grads, this obsession with computer/tech gadgets isn’t solely limited to them. An uncle who is a Civil Engineer was one of the earliest adopters of personal computers(pre-PC/MAC) in the 1970’s. There’s still some really old photos showing him and some of his kids playing on it.

I also have a bit of an computer/tech obsession. However, I don’t need the latest and greatest and due to a combination of regularly getting dumped systems from companies, clients, friends, CL and from the streets in my local neighborhood all free…I get far more than I need for my “fix”.

Last time I paid retail for a brand new computer was a Macbook Pro several years ago. It was for my mother.
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