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Re:New MacBook Pro outsold every competing laptop in just fi... by alasdair_ on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:52PM (#12915623)
It happened with Apple in general too - almost overnight, every seemed to ditch their windows machines and replace them with macbook pros.

In part, that was because of things like ios, where a mac was mandatory. In part it was because of things like Ruby which was simply much easier on a mac and in part it was because having a "real" unix shell is so damn useful.

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Re:New MacBook Pro outsold every competing laptop in just fi... by pmontra on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:39AM (#12919879)
Ruby is (or was?) almost impossible on Windows because everybody was using it for Rails on Linux servers. Running all the related services on Windows is just too hard. I used to have a Linux VM in my XP laptop, then I formatted it to Ubuntu with a XP VM.
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