> in case of normal end user desktop applicaton is not reasonable in the sense that very few users will care or even notice. such a very-first-world country wa

> in case of normal end user desktop applicaton is not reasonable in the sense that very few users will care or even notice. such a very-first-world country way of thinking. Hell, I live in france, in a fairly affluent city (Bordeaux), and my two neighbors run their stuff on 15 year old computers as buying newer computers is not really an expense they can make that easily. But they will never be able to complain to anyone & make their voice heard (except to me, their computer geek neighbor) that things are slow - they don't even know that things could be faster.