[gouranga]

I think the point is the wrong way around.

1. The amateurs tools are a low quality, oversimplified version of the professional's. The same goes if you compare a Korg Trinity to a cheap Casio keyboard (I've owned the earlier of the two for 16 years and play for 2 hours a day at random intervals if that's any help supporting the difference in quality).

2. The machine is definitely suboptimal. I suggest that you read the remainder of the author's blog about sane computing.