I know why we can't have nice things: Because "PC" architecture has led to small, slow, narrow buses, in theory compensated for by ever larger cached memories. What a crock of crap. Console architectures are so much more sane. Why should I have to fork out 2x the $$$ and waste 2x+ the electrons to shuffle things from main CPU RAM to GPU RAM (and sometimes back again)? It freaking kills me that drawing a freaking line is freaking rocket science now. Let alone if you want to draw a lot of them, and animate them.