Googlers tend to use their Mac laptops as glorified remote desktop terminals, because they aren't allowed to so much as check out code to portable computers that can leave the office.
It's a running joke that $2k top-of-the-line Apple laptops are being used as remote desktop terminals when much cheaper hardware would be perfectly sufficient.
I replaced my MacBook Pro with a Google Pixelbook since indeed my work is all remote and I don't really like MacBooks. I've previously tried high end Dell laptop (the most amazing laptop I've ever used, it had a high end nvidia GPU and you could train models on an airplane) and ended up with this device.
I wish it was slightly larger with better specs and more ports, only because I spend a lot of time in video chat and there isn't enough CPU oomph to do video chat and Google docs on an external display.
It's a running joke that $2k top-of-the-line Apple laptops are being used as remote desktop terminals when much cheaper hardware would be perfectly sufficient.