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by bad_user 3727 days ago
I'm a software developer, so I'm arguably a content producer. I have a 4 year old laptop that's still fine for software development, even though I'm using heavy tools to do it (e.g. Scala, IntelliJ IDEA), I only had to replace its battery.

Producing content doesn't necessarily mean 3D rendering. It can mean just writing Word / Excel / PowerPoint documents.

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I struggled to find a single short description for activities that can easily saturate a modern PC's processing power and I/O, but I couldn't really. Let's not get hung up on naming here.
I guess in your case you are more of a content input, rather than producer. Or perhaps producers should be called content farmers/hackers.
Content, noun:

   1. the amount of a particular constituent 
      occurring in a substance.
   2. the material dealt with in a speech, 
      literary work, etc. as distinct from 
      its form or style.
   3. information made available by a 
      website or other electronic medium.
Producer, noun:

   1. a person, company, or country that makes, 
      grows, or supplies goods or commodities.
   2. a person or thing that makes or causes
      something.
Maybe we are not speaking the same language.