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As if finance guys would have ThinkPads and not macs
Why would they have macs? Everyone I know in finance has a windows desktop and or laptop.
Everyone I know in literally every company has a Windows PC. I've had people tell me that everyone at their office uses a Mac or Linux and I'm just bamboozled. I guess I do work for a large law firm and most law firms, financial companies and most software companies that we work with are windows shops.
FWIW, academia is utterly dominated by Macs. In the last 10 years I have known exactly one colleague to choose to use a PC, and her open reason for doing that is that she thinks it’s fun to be contrarian. A lot of (psychology) labs will have one dusty PC stashed away in a corner somewhere running that one weird piece of Windows-only proprietary software for the eye-tracker or a super niche stats program or something, but then you make IT come in to keep it alive because the idea of having to put any effort into using it or replacing it is horrible.
I was a little curious whether losing the ability to BootCamp (the new M chips can’t, and I personally used dual booting all the time for video games) would change anything, but my university’s response was to start paying for Parallels for anyone who wants it.
I really didn’t understand why people still acted like anybody at all uses Windows until my husband moved from academia to industry a few years ago and we were totally floored by the PC-culture (heh) he found himself in (though he’s personally pretty anti-Mac and not complaining). Now the only Mac he sees is mine and the only PC I see is his. It’s wild.
Yea I could see that. I was challenged in a few other places on Lemmy because my company didn't use Linux and supposedly it was more common than Windows which blew my mind. Outside of school though I don't see professionals using Macs unless maybe it's a personal device or some software devs/designers. I go to my fair share of conferences and events which are almost always Dell, Lenovo or HP machines running Windows.