[aldo_14]

Yeah, but you didn't have the oh-so-invaluable clippy then.

[FireCrack]

i was typing fast, you'l notice it's merely an error of one hand moving to u to press t and the other to s to be ready to press but my brain got the order messed up.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by ZylonBane
Since when do "middle-of-the-road" office apps need a frelling 3GHz dual-core system with a gig of RAM?

Back when 300MHz was state of the art, I never recall thinking that Word was running too slow.

I never said I use "middle-of-the-road" apps, I said my machine was that. I regularly use apps like Photoshop CS and InDesign CS to work on print publications.

[Rictor]

Still, dual core 3.0Ghz isn't middle of the road, by any stretch.

I can and do still run Photoshop 7 fine on my dad's 266 Mhz computer. The speed at which computer speeds are increasing is outpacing the need for such speed, among average users at least. It promotes bloated, wasteful programming.

[Admiral LSD]

...only to people who's PC can't run it.

Since PC hardware is so insaney cheap these days, I've given up caring about so-called "bloatware".

[aldo_14]

....given that you have 'get Internet Explorer' in your siggy, I'm not surprised.......

so long as bloatware or just general inefficient programming exists, we'll have diminishing returns on our hardware expenditure.  Not only that, because optimization by nature requires more understanding of precise program functions, I'd reckon we'll probably have more bugs too.