[CSG] Interesting Mac population increase

So I'm sitting here in this room at UC Berkeley, where there's about 60 people from major research universities across the country, all with their laptops, listening to various presentations. I'm sitting in the front row, and as I look back across the room I am struck by the fact that over half of the laptop lids facing me feature that prominent gently glowing Apple logo.

That's a big change over the last year or so for this audience. These folks are all hard core central computing types - technology architects and CIOs or high level directors. What does it mean? Probably that OS X has become the Unix for the rest of us. Or maybe it's iTunes :)