Scoble: Is Windows out and Macintosh in among Silicon Valley's elite?

WTF? Scoble is smarter than this. OS X (and Linux to a lesser extent) replaced Windows among hackers and developers a long time ago. Where's he been this whole time?

Exactly, this just leads to another lame mac vs pc war in the comments.

When was Windows ever in among Silicon Valley's elite?

Yes, as several people have pointed out here, the trend of hackers and other developers going Mac was noted a long time ago. Paul Graham wrote about it in his essay "Return of the Mac" in 2005.

Scoble is talking about something bigger--not just hackers and developers. He's talking the business guys and the marketing guys. He's talking about people that came from Microsoft.

He's also talking about seeing a lot of iPads, and how maybe Jobs is right about the post-PC world.

link-bait. Seriously, slashdot was reporting about the OSX mindshare takeover of hackers back in 2001 and the TiBook.

Ever since then, it's been a pretty engrained stereotype, and Apple's offerings have only gotten better.