Try loading up 20 JS-heavy tabs in Firefox/Chrome and looking at your RAM/CPU/battery use :) Offloading that computation to a VPS somewhere with a fast internet

Try loading up 20 JS-heavy tabs in Firefox/Chrome and looking at your RAM/CPU/battery use :) Offloading that computation to a VPS somewhere with a fast internet pipe is attractive. Most webpages are mostly text, and terminals are great at text.