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What computers do Google engineers use when doing heavy programming?

23rd November 2013

My answer to What computers do Google engineers use when doing heavy programming? on Quora

Loads of people at Google use Macs. Google as a company is way too smart to stop using a good product just because it is produced by a competitor.

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