The Solution Is Simple: Buy A Netbook And Test There!
Something every web developer should do, is test whatever Web related stuff into new generation devices such netbooks , low cost notebook, old PCs and/or smart phones . If a non techie user surfs a website and the latter one horribly slows down his " device ", in the most common case, and specially if the website is " famous ", this user will blame its wonderful piece of technology, rather than the infamous designer/developer that created the problem. This happened recently, as example, in Hotamail and with the latest Sherlock Holmes Flash banner. The Solution Is Simple Starting with the fact that Junior Flash developers are as responsible as advertisement hosts, unable to filter proper banners from annoying one , if a company would like to provide these heavy computation banners it should simply make a little investment as a whatever Atom CPU based device is (even just an all in one motherboard is enough!). Even better, it could recycle a generic good old Pent...