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>> 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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