Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

This is quite an example of ignorance:

"Great idea, give kids OSX so they can get to a job that requires knowledge of Windows, nevermind the kid who used a "regular" computer got that job. Macs are less than 5% in the US, less than 2% worldwide.. way to prepare these kids for the 'real world'

Not to mention Mac users are infamously cult like. My kid is taking a PC to school keep you iwhatever, we use PC's at home and work. If my son wants to listen to music, I'll give Apple a call."

Where does the 5% number come from, oh, that statistical body of knowledge called your anonymous ass.

Apple is very prevalent in the workplace world. Its prevalent in software design firms, publishing houses, recording industries (audio and video) and more. In addition its BSD based which means the kids *might* get exposed to Unix. Unix/Linux IS the business world (I have worked for several fortune 100 companies - a knowledge of Unix is very helpful).

Now granted the reason Windows is more popular than Mac in homes and in offices where they arent doing anything with the computer other than reading email, surfing the web and using Excel/Word (where the computer is a fancy word processor and communication assistant, not really being put to work) is exactly because they arent doing anything with the computer (that and they dont know any better).

What are the kids going to use the machines for? Editing documents, viewing web resources, communicating, then sure Windows would be fine, but so would Mac - those trivial tasks can be done on any platform - its just that Macs make more sense in such an environment because they are far more secure and far less prone to support issues (save money in the long run).

If you are worried about your kid not getting a job because you use PC at home and you think Mac would hurt those chances (why because the kid couldnt click on "Word" instead of "W" which launches the exact same program?), then you are truly ignorant - go back to the evolution stickers and just leave the computers out of it altogether.