> "It usually only had one core, clock speeds were lower and you had much less memory available to you,"<p>Yeah, right. Modern browsers already eat up several GIGS of memory, while super-advenced-zomg tablets boast of 2G. Most have 1G 80% of which is eaten by the system (and widgets, and other persistent stuff).
But not caring about memory is hype. Because its future, technology, and, you know, Moore's law