Eric_WVGG

My father had a copy of Windows 1.1 in the basement, I installed it on a lark as a kid. Wish I still had that, could probably make a few bucks on eBay.

MS-DOS offerings back in those days really weren’t bad at all… take the time to learn WordPerfect’s many layers of function keys and you'd arguably be a more productive writer than someone on a modern word processor. The spreadsheets were great too; having little to no UI to work on left developers to focus on raw performance and functionality. 

Windows 1.1 offered none of that. It didn't offer the power of Wordperfect or Lotus 1-2-3, and it didn't offer the intuitiveness of the Macintosh. I do not believe that it was ever used in a corporate environment for more than a few days before being uninstalled. Nothing more than a technology demo.

> Luckily, part of this is alleviated thanks to the 5W Qi charger on the side. When not plugged into a wall, the internal battery or a USB-C cord can be used to turn the powerstation Hub into a wireless charging pad.

> This allows several scenarios to play out, such as to connect it to the side of your MacBook Pro and use it as a charging hub for your iPhone, Watch, and other gear.

... but to clarify, the wireless charging can’t do the watch, a dongle is still necessary. Bummer. 

They did all that years ago. I've built out three server side projects using the Swift Vapor framework. 

(Natively in browsers, not quite here, but coming to WebASM sooner or later)

I know a guy who's working on a vertical/indoor farming startup. He's built a platform where the plants all have QR codes under them; workers can walk around the aisles and see at a glance which plants require water, have a fungus, are ready for harvest, etc. 

Warehouse workers being given directions or orders amidst hundreds of thousands of crates. I once had a job working at UPS, loading boxes into trucks for cross-country transit. I had to check the zip codes of 60-100 boxes per minute to make sure I wasn't sending a California box to Texas. I could never keep the lists of zips correct, eventually washed out. Google Glasses would have been a godsend.

There was good story about their use in surgery and medical settings.

Google Glass is a great product. It's just not a great consumer product.

wonkothesane said:

Can someone tell me the difference regarding the OWC Aura Pro X2 480 GB (other than the Pro being much faster and slightly more expensive)?
I am interested in putting it into my late 2013 13" MBP.

It's faster and slightly more expensive.

IMO you're not going to notice the difference unless you're doing the kind of work where a 2013 CPU and GPU is going to be inadequate in the first place.