White House staff and others use Apple MacBooks to monitor Barack Obama’s live interview on YouTube in the Library of the White House on February 1, 2010.


(Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)

[Attribution: Fortune. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Aussiebookguy" for the heads up.]

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