Simon Willison’s Weblog

What’s the best use in the office for my old Macbook Pro?

3rd December 2013

My answer to What’s the best use in the office for my old Macbook Pro? on Quora

Set it up to display metrics or KPIs—by running http://www.geckoboard.com/ on it for example.

Posted 3rd December 2013 at 10:39 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

More recent articles

A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API - 23rd April 2026
Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not - it's all very confusing - 22nd April 2026
Where's the raccoon with the ham radio? (ChatGPT Images 2.0) - 21st April 2026

This is What’s the best use in the office for my old Macbook Pro? by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd December 2013.

macos 106 servers 6 quora 1005 lifehacks 5

Next: What should be considered when deciding to do a marathon?

Previous: Which format for API documentation programmers prefer: PDF or Web?

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe