From Google engineer Ian Hickson's talk on HTML 5 (note title bar):
Google engineer Brad Neuberg gives talk on the future of the Web (note eye candy along screen bottom):
Why is it that those who know computing best do not use Microsoft products?
For a professional in large-scale computing like Google, OS X is the best of all possible worlds.
I can run a Windows installation as a guest VM. I can run Linux as another guest VM.
OS X is solid as the host OS.
And then when I need the GNU/FSF Unix-based sw development tools, I can install them onto OS X as if it were any other Unix machine.
The only thing that Macbook Pro’s lack (IMO) is a good old fashioned serial port and built-in modem. The USB dongle solution works, but it isn’t as good as having a built-in port. The Firewire ports are rather cool, especially when there’s problems with your mac or another Mac and you fire up the problem machine in Target Disk Mode. Oh, that’s a clever feature...