Why Are Macs So Common In Coffee Shops?

[*LTD*]

or take my old Dell Inspiron 2500 (it had Windows ME on it... its old as hell) and see the looks...

If you were rockin Windows ME on it, hell, I'd go see it!!

" 'scuse me, what are you lookin at? This is a classic Dell, running the most important version of Windows ever . . . the one named after our new millenium! That's quite an honour. Now if you'll excuse me I'll go stand in line to order a coffee while Windows loads."

 

[Ben S]

My personal experience is that Mac's are for the more artistic than academic people (in terms of people's jobs), and I've a had several meetings about radio shows, producing and record deals in coffee shops. I don't pay the outrageous ££ they charge for a simple cuppa tho.

The academic workers, have meetings in business rooms and increasingly online.

Maybe your personal experience is rather limited. I'm an IT manager and my whole shop of developers (a more academic and non-artistic group you will not find) are Mac users, for the very simple reason that Mac machines are BSD UNIX under the hood, meaning they're powerful and flexible enough to do whatever we require of them. There's also the handy fact that you can use apps like Parallels and VMWare Fusion to have a whole test suite (various flavours of Windows, UNIX/Linux and Mac) all in one machine.

It boils down to this: you can run Windows on a Mac but you can't (legally) run Mac OS X on a Windows machine.

 

[ccdan]

in Europe, Macs aren't popular at all in coffee shops (I have yet to see one) or otherwise...

 

[partyBoy]

Does it even fit the table?

i was kidding

 

[iDocism]

Who cares about Starbucks...if you want to show off your computer while taking up a table for hours on end...Panera Bread is the place to be...

Hickman

Even for iMacs, I'm so proud of my dad but he's gone a lot.