In late 2001 (in the US) I switched off of desktop Linux to a used iBook G3, and have never really went back.
We were a small company and I switched to using that iBook for some work (C++ development for *nix-based systems). I felt I was an early adopter there by a few years. I converted my workstation (which for reasons was way more powerful than the ones the rest of the development group had) into a build server and a local RedHat/Debian cache for the team. That poor iBook did not have the horsepower to build the software locally in a reasonable amount of time :-)
Apple basically created their own retail stores to accelerate their consumer sales channel, and the first one in the EU was in 2004.
We were a small company and I switched to using that iBook for some work (C++ development for *nix-based systems). I felt I was an early adopter there by a few years. I converted my workstation (which for reasons was way more powerful than the ones the rest of the development group had) into a build server and a local RedHat/Debian cache for the team. That poor iBook did not have the horsepower to build the software locally in a reasonable amount of time :-)
Apple basically created their own retail stores to accelerate their consumer sales channel, and the first one in the EU was in 2004.