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What a lovely memory, and I think my first mac, a PB 180, was Irish, but if not, the accessories certainly were. And I wonder if the doorstop of a Powermac 8100 still at my childhood home was Irish too.

A different world, though. You couldn't find an Apple Mac most places, and I think I possessed the only Mac laptop in the whole of my university.

I wonder what Apple Ireland do now, apart from make nefarious plans to avoid tax and make orphans cry.

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Walk onto the UCD and Trinity Campuses tomorrow morning, go into the Newman or Phil buildings. Count the Macbook Airs and iPads in lectures, generally coupled with both an iPhone Pro model and an iWatch. Only the grant students are using DELL Laptops through the University schemes.

Then go down the docklands, walk into any incubator or start up lab. Hell, anywhere with a good load of contractors. It will all be Macbook Pro for IDE and Terminal work - the odd Thinkpad for the greybeards.

Sales, logistics, technical support, administration and accountancy for the entire EU market. Software engineering and some R&D.

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