Every developer who creates desktop apps should work with a rather low spec machine for a while, maybe even for a whole day per week. Moore's law yadda yadda,

Every developer who creates desktop apps should work with a rather low spec machine for a while, maybe even for a whole day per week. Moore's law yadda yadda, but while it's great that we don't have to include inline assembly anymore, some of the waste we're seeing currently is just abysmal.