Fact? No. Confirmation bias, certainly. The &#x27;fact&#x27; that you are trying to assert is that kids can&#x27;t learn to &#x27;code&#x27; on an iMac, which is wrong (and also has nothing to do with the article). Before you argue that words being put in your mouth<p>&gt; <i>Give him a 27&quot; iMac and he learns to find and play meaningless random crappy Flash games, watch Minecraft videos, and occasionally play minecraft or do something else, like looks something up, checks his homework assignments, et</i><p>I think that shows a remarkable lack of imagination. As a counter point, my nephew is happily learning Python on an iPad using both CodeAcademy online and the Pythonista app. When he wants to tinker, his dad will hook up the RPi he has.<p>What I suspect happened here is the crappy laptop and BSD (iMac is also essentially running a BSD) was give as a &quot;here, learn Python&quot; and the iMac wasn&#x27;t mentioned.