It’s more complicated than that because while old-school Macs lacked “nerd cool” as they were seen as tools for users rather than programmers, as soon as OS X came out they became the preferred system for nerds as they had both the command line interface needed for serious work as well as supporting Office and Outlook, which, while certainly unnerdy and uncool, are often required in the business (and sadly even the academic) world.
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