Surprisingly ontopic:
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilber...-20060216.html
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilber...-20060217.html
just to point out the obvious,
there is a very large difference,
let us eat more cpu processing and memory,
or be efficient in programming. The latter is (hopefuly) starting to catch up.
PS " End miss-spelled crap grammar rant" -> no grammar nazis here.
PPS: laptop industry is tramping the desktop one.