Developers assuming that all users have hardware and internet speeds anywhere close to as good as their own is a huge problem. Not only is there a huge chunk o

Developers assuming that all users have hardware and internet speeds anywhere close to as good as their own is a huge problem. Not only is there a huge chunk of people who are using low-to-midrange laptops ranging anywhere between old and ancient, but manufacturers are still selling brand new machines with CPU power and RAM roughly on par with the average laptop from 2007 (C2D class CPU, 2-4GB RAM, 5400RPM HD). Those users aren’t going away any time soon, and by casting resource consumption aside as a total non-issue, developers are also casting these users aside.