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> lightweight client machine.... The universal client (web browser) is all most users need.

That was quite funny. Of all heavy-weight professional applications I currently use, the modern web browser is the very worst resource hog (even when running rather simple web-apps). Even VS2017 can't beat it.

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The browser is finally starting to deliver as the universal interface, and with it, the resource hogging. Seems odd when laptops are maxed out on RAM for running the browser.

But when people start mentioning in alienware gaming laptop reviews (the laptops with GTX1080, the non-mobile version, and 64G of RAM) that it still doesn't run 80 tabs smoothly ... it might be time to rethink some of the software architecture of browsers.

Ha, I have to admit I saw one of those GTX1080 laptops and it made me wonder if it would help enough with handling an unreasonable number of browser tabs.

Browsers consume some 10x-20x resources comparing to a native application that performs exactly the same task.

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