If your standard is "gifs in photoshop" and "somewhat decent documents in Word" then you clearly haven't seen the web alternatives to "all desktop apps ever mad

If your standard is "gifs in photoshop" and "somewhat decent documents in Word" then you clearly haven't seen the web alternatives to "all desktop apps ever made." Saying you need Photoshop to make gifs is like saying you need the US nuclear stockpile for mall security. I have a Chromebook and regularly use it to write beautiful LaTeX documents, decent documents/spreadsheets in Drive, wonderful charts on plot.ly, on-the-go programming in any language I need, and all photo editing I've ever needed in the browser. They even have javascript torrent apps these days.