>professional companies use apple desktop computers despite

computers are cheap

Unix development environment and apple gives corporate discounts

>>61602695
That's a cute doggo. Mind if I save it?

>>61602702
This. I make $150k/yr, do you think my employer cares about a $3k laptop they have to buy every 3-4 years?

Also as a Linux systems engineer having a unix environment is crucial and I also want my shit to just work which is why I'm not running some random distro on a thinkpad.

less time and money spent keeping them running vs windows, also some software still limited to apple devices, also security

>look good
>don't need much to set up
>applel support is neat
>money literally doesn't matter
>even if they're low performant, people can just access the servers

>>61602695
The main reason is Unix.
Guess what: software development isn't the same thing as gaming.