I get the point, but as I also pointed out, the system is doing more and more behind the scenes work where you still don’t want the system to grind to a halt while you do a backup, or index the drive, or do facial recognition and tagging on the latest batch of photos and videos.

That’s not professionals doing ProRes editing, that’s simply average, everyday user photos and videos, which keep getting bigger and bigger as media sizes increase.

And let’s not even mention people who play games with increasingly complex graphics, ray-tracing, real-time effects, and ever advanced physics and behavior engines… who’d really rather not be chugging along at 6FPS.

You don’t have to be running Final Cut to be utilizing the capabilities of your computer.

Heck, even “simple” things like Center Stage on the iPad where you’re simply tracking the users face is the end result of a lot of computational horsepower. Same for smart predictive text and autocorrection where all you’re doing is “just” typing… while the system is doing all of those things plus palm rejection on the trackpad.

And all that said, I believe our computers still aren’t running nowhere near fast enough to enable truely transformative technologies. But we’re getting there.

After all, I still want my Knowledge Navigator… ;)