Who’s MacBook Neo for?

Sam Henri Gold posted “This Is Not The Computer For You”

My dad bought our first PC, then a second followed. It ran Windows XP and had an external modem. It had a DVD player, 5.1 sound system with dedicated audio card. Only one speaker and subwoofer worked. I spent hours playing games, poking with Word, Outlook, Paint, various audio and DVD players. Years later I got older and figured out how to fix audio driver issues; all speakers started to work and I was blown away by the stereo effect. I spent one year making a video in a pirated version of Pinnacle Studio 9, because the video project was very large; each click put my computer into a 2–3 second loading state. I learned how the CPU and memory worked. I learned about disk fragmentation and the Windows registry. I beat Doom 3 which dropped to 5–6 frames per second when an enemy appeared in a scene; I beat the game. At the same time, Half-Life 2 came out and it ran at a constant frame rate; that’s when I learned about the importance of software optimisation.