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A lot of people I know at Google use a Mac.

The typical engineering setup is Mac laptop + Goobuntu workstation.

A typical engineering setup. There are quite a few of us using Goobuntu Thinkpads or Chromebooks. (Since you can't have code checked out on your laptop, a Chromebook is not as disadvantageous as one would imagine.)

Does the chrome secure shell support keyfiles now?

In the dev release it does. Info here [1]

[1]https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!...

Yesterday's update, 0.8.2, added support for them: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...

You have a policy that forbids you to checkout code on company laptops?

This is discussed more up-thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452490

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