&gt;<i>It really doesn&#x27;t matter whether your computer is that fast. For heavy (scientific) number crunching you probably want to use a cloud provider or at least a dedicated machine.</i><p>A lot of things we want to do IS &quot;heavy (scientific) number crunching&quot;.<p>Complex 3D Gaming. 4K video editing. DAW and professional audio DSP. Live video filters. OCR. And so on...