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Having a 4gb 2011 macbook as my main machine really helped me learn optimizing pages. Firefox starts being framedroppy and slow on pages that are not well-optimized, and boy do i see a lot of them around :D Use png8 compression, learn how to minimize asset sizes, abolish iframes, learn JS and don't use bloat that executes every 20 milliseconds for what is CSS's job. It helps computers breathe a bit easier!
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which is not to say "don't make overloaded maximalist insanity", most certainly do, my site is that. Just.. don't use a 1000x2000 png if at the end it's downsized to 150x300 div background on-screen. Downscale it in a graphic editor and re-render in PNG8. Stuff like that.