RIP SeatGuru, and a reminiscence on in-flight power
SeatGuru Laid To Rest After 24 Years . I can’t say I used it much in the past - decade? - if at all. I mostly fly private these days, after all, and even when I do occasionally fly commercial, the one thing that really made SeatGuru essential for me back in the day is no longer much of an issue: In flight power. Back in the mid-aughts, I was wearing several hats at a tech start-up, and generally always “on.” Flying, even with my spiffy new MacBook Pro 15.4" with its claimed 5 hour battery life (that was, when brand new, more like 2-3 hours ), generally meant not being able to get all that much done before the battery was out of juice. (Years earlier, I had a superslim Sony VAIO PCG-Z505R , with two “Standard Lithium-Ion Battery” packs that were good for a claimed “1.0-1.5 hours” each, and one thick “Triple-capacity Lithium-Ion Battery” with a claimed runtime of “3.5-5.0 hours,” and that could more or less get me through a domestic flight.) But then Apple released the Apple M...