[RulerOf]

>This is why I argue that one of the best things that the Free/Libre software developer community can start doing is optimizing for lower spec machines.

But isn't the primary application for these machines going to be the web browser, which is pulling in so much JS insanity that the web sites won't render well anyway?

[NovaPenguin]

Yeah, that is unfortunately a big part of it. Via NoScript I generally run the web very lean but there is only so much one can do.