Ok, so we are moving the goalposts from what you can currently buy as a desktop machine, to what you bought as a desktop machine 5 years ago, which likely wasn'

Ok, so we are moving the goalposts from what you can currently buy as a desktop machine, to what you bought as a desktop machine 5 years ago, which likely wasn't even top of the line. Then because you can run a web browser on it that makes it desktop class? Please that argument doesn't hold an ounce of anything. For that matter the processor in the original iphone was desktop class because it was capable of surfing the web better than the Pentium II's common in desktop machines in 2000. Which is why tons of people just bought ipads and stopped upgrading their desktops. I never made an argument that you couldn't replace a desktop with a phone/tablet/whatever, that wasn't what this was about. It was about claiming that apple's products were performance competitive with (current) desktop class machines. Which for some use cases they probably are, for others like heavy gaming, engineering work, or basically most of what people actually have desktop machines for these days (as opposed to laptops which is probably a better comparison) its not really a comparison outside of some great marketing. Of course this is the usual apple crap, I've been hearing it since the PPC in the mac was a "supercomputer".