Been wondering if it's time to upgrade laptops at some point soon. I do have a desktop that's pretty beefy and can do the video games, but my primary laptop is still this ThinkPad Z60t that I got from some neighbors for $10 before heading off to college.
It's got a blazing fast single core Pentium M processor (which is throttled to prevent overheating). It also has at least two (and actually two) Gigs of RAM.
The 32-bit world is getting pretty lonely though. No one cares to program with the restraint of 4 Gigs. We've been in the realm of 64-bit for a while now, and all we've gotten is more and more and more RAM needed to feed the javascript beast. No care for the underpinnings of the OS or optimization.
For some reason, I'm reminded of my soil science class that I took. Sure, you can grow plants without a thought for tomorrow, but one of the last times we did that, we created the dust bowl.
More respect needs to be given to computers (phones included!). As digital citizenship becomes a neccessity, the decades old soils in which our computing world is rooted needs to be cared for. Otherwise, we'll probably end up not appeciating the growing nature of computers. We might even end up doing things with our computers that are incredibly boring. Like debate in non productive ways or have compute dedicated to pointless ledger calculations or playback short videos that mean nothing and say nothing.
It's all about the Pentiums, baby.