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<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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”. </p>
<p>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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