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That's like comparing a destroyer to the USS Nimitz and calling it a small boat.
If I told my then colleagues at Engineering school I would have a multitasking, UNIX-based, RISC machine with 64 megs of RAM and 32 gigabytes of storage and a fast, full-time, connection to the internet in my back pocket I would be locked up in a loony bin. If I told them I would use it to listen to music, I would end up burned for witchcraft. Even my humble netbook is a good couple hundred times more powerful than t…
My netbook (900MHz, 512 meg RAM) is blindingly fast for unix; but Eclipse was unusably slow.