Schools do, plus if you want to develop anything for IOS (iphones, ipads, etc...) with any serious power.

My GM actually raids (World of Warcraft) on her Mac.  We all feel for her lol

I don't understand. I thought it was widely accepted that Macs do not make for good gaming computers. Why is this a big deal?

I hope schools get an absolutely insane discount, otherwise that's a serious waste of money. 

Still, thinking back, my high school used Macs in the computer lab, even though the teacher always recommended PC.

The lab at school (High school) had an equal number of macs and PC's, and the servers ran on Unix, and the graphics dept had toasters for rendering.  So, we had a mix.  Then if I go way, way, way back, tbh, I don't 'think' they were on Mac's, but I really cannot remember the type of PC it was, but we had Word Munchers(~85-87) on computers in school, when I lived in Florida for 2 years.

lmao thems fighting words :p

Ouch

Can't disagree with him.

Toasters are underrated, in my opinion.

My school was one of the poorest in a poor county and would actually cease being a high school two years after I left, so they spent no money on it and the Macs were really outdated.  We learned how to do some Apple-ish programming but I remember none of it.  I think the teacher kind of gave up on teaching anything meaningful on those machines, so mostly we just typed in some pre-written beginner code, watched the results, then played chess.  I got really good at chess.  By the end of the year, I had the teacher on the ropes but he stalled until class was over and said he was too busy to continue our game, which was lame.

So, yeah, I'm actually really happy that Apples in my class helped me get good at chess.

That far back, most of, if not all the computers were for educational purposes.  I recall a fuzzy memory of a computer being in a public library that had a choose your own adventure dungeon crawler style game on it.  But I don't remember much about it, or even if it was in Florida or in Vermont (the two places I've lived).  When I came back to VT, and hit junior/high school that changed quite dramatically.  We'd have gaming marathon's during pep rallies (the rallies were optional), and most of the kids knew more about PC's than the teachers (alt+tab was a mystery to some of the monitors), so gaming during school hours was also a thing we'd do.  Though Multiplayer would easily be detected by the Systems Admin due to the size and frequency of packet transfer that'd show up on the server/network monitors in his office.

My Dad was a highish level manager at DEC, Inc. at the time, so he's had a computer in his house almost as far back as I can remember, likewise my mother had a Mac at hers going way, way back.  Never got into coding though, gaming, building/maintenance sure, but coding never hooked me.