You're not wrong. It is not by some rational calculus that these desires are expressed. I should note that I don't ever actually buy any Power Challenge XLs o

You're not wrong. It is not by some rational calculus that these desires are expressed. I should note that I don't ever actually buy any Power Challenge XLs or anything, just that I bid on them (to lose). Working on The Big Iron at HEP back in the day was really fun, and the fact that an 11" MBA is considerably faster than the 12 processor R8000 SGI box used for simulation work in 1995, while amazing, is sort of sad to me. Fast computers should be BIG COMPUTERS. But I'm a greybeard; this is well-established.