Comment by Nullabillity
11 years ago
> A buddy of mine is working on *nix software at IBM and they asked if he wanted a Thinkpad or an MBP; that blew my mind.
Except, you know, IBM doesn't have anything to do with Thinkpad anymore, and hasn't for years.
"Except, you know," that it's a highly conservative company and offering a line developer a Mac is, in my experience, kind of weird.
True, but I wonder if it is because they are both seen as "high end" laptops? I know that you can go to PC World and buy a £500 device or cheaper models but MacBooks and high-end Thinkpads have always commanded a higher location in the market. If I were to sell my MacBook and get another laptop, I think the only other option would be Thinkpads.