Burning Cycles

For fun, I thought I would try a simple word-processor for that Macintosh called Bean (I am using it to write this, I have been trying to find a smarter alternative to the online blogger.com interface). And I must say I am impressed. It has all the functionality of a most basic word-processor without of the weirdness and the bloat of Open-Office or Word. You open it fast, get to typing, save, then close. And it closes fast. Hmm... Harkens back to the day...

Last Thursday, to be precise, Slashdot posted an article comparing a modern AMD screamer to an old Mac Plus. Guess which one wins. Well obviously the Mac plus which is old enough to drink in the states (it is 21 years old) cannot do the hard processing of video or audio, but it can adeptly run Microsoft's Word and Excel, created for its day, as fast as the AMD runs current versions. Hmm...

Are we just burning cycles here?