probably because Google is looking into the future. with the advent of technologies like WebGL a lot of apps can be moved into the browser. Including photo edi

probably because Google is looking into the future. with the advent of technologies like WebGL a lot of apps can be moved into the browser. Including photo editing and 3D gaming. If such apps are running in a browser, as non native code, this would call for good hardware specs. especially with such high resolutions. seems reasonable to me.