Rumors of a refresh of the aging Mac Pro began in November 2015, as hints to a new Mac Pro were found embedded in the source code of the developer preview of Apple Mac OS X El Capitan. The code referenced to a AAPLJ951,1 with hints to some of the hardware features we might find in the new model. The code snippet, published last year by Pike’s Universum, seems to imply that the new Mac Pro will feature as many as ten(10) USB ports. By this token, these hints may be purely placeholders, and the new setup could very well reflect the same 4 USB + 6 Thunderbolt (=10) as the 2013 model.

The funny thing about new technologies and features, is that the good ones are usually the ones we take for granted first, and miss only when they are gone. Let’s take a look at five pieces of technologies that our grandkids will only learn about from Wikipedia.

There are at least five things that laptop owners wished for a long time, and are now widely available:

An extremely rare pre-production Apple 1 computer has been recently announced as one of the hottest auction items this year. The Apple I “Celebration” features a blank PCB board, and no record of any such board being sold by either Steve Jobs nor Steve Wozniak, which can only mean that the board was never meant to reach the public.