That's probably 'cos most of your techies have no idea how to use one and really only know anything about PCs....that's certainly the case where I work. It's a very easy defence mechanism. Once they actually spend some time with one however....
I used to be a techie, and now am a consultant. While I'm not "anti-mac" I don't think they are as good as most people make them out to be. The hardware is full of issues (on our emacs we had a to send back 70% of them for capacitor issues, macbook white the cases kept breaking, iMac 24" we had burn in from the log-in window.) Each time was a HUGE fight with apple, which are a pain to deal with. From the server side, they have even stopped making raid arrays, because they realised just how out-of-date their overpriced arrays were. Their server technology is equally as appaling, with AFP (the apple file transfer protocol used to mount home diretories) leaking memory all over the place (I have an email from apple somewhee saying that their recomendation is to set the servers to reboot once every 24-hours to fix this...)
Now, before you say I don't understand Macs, I'm ACSA (Apple Certified System Administrator) to 10.3, 10.4 and ACTC (Apple Certified Technical Co-ordinator) to 10.5 and 10.6. I have since moved away from Mac's in a corporate environment thankfully...
Mac's are great - but not in a corporate environment. They are great for that user who doesn't really know how to use a computer, who clicks yes on all popups, who needs a "playmobil, my first computer".
If you are technologically minded, you may like Apple's foundation in *nix - but after some serious digging you will get frustrated and jut install a real *nix os that hasn't been tampered with.
M. <written on a MacBook Pro running Vista/Ubuntu dual boot>
