>> I've only ever seen a PS3 in action once. I was using it to play a 
>> game called "Call of Duty 4". Never heard of the game,
> 
> You don't play many video games, then.

Yeah - and? ;-)

>> On the other hand, Word just makes text appear on a screen, and lets 
>> you edit it. (And change fonts and styles.) That was possible 20 years 
>> ago. 
> 
> No, you're describing WordPad.  Word does significantly more.

Yes - you can insert pictures and there are different text alignments 
and you can fiddle with the margins and insert headers and footers and a 
few other bits that nobody uses. But basically, it's WordPad with bells on.

>> So why does it suddenly require so much hardware to achieve the same 
>> thing as before? It's not like Word has any significant new features 
>> or anything...
> 
> Because your computer is doing a *lot* more than just running Word.

But what if you only actually want to run Word?

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