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I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
2026-08-22A developer successfully ran a Macintosh emulation of Photoshop using a 60p Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, demonstrating the surprising capabilities of highly constrained modern hardware. Although the total cost of the custom board and display pushes the actual price closer to $40, the project highlights the efficiency of classic software compared to today's resource-heavy applications. The tech community responded with enthusiasm, sharing their own low-power microcontroller builds and praising the return to reasoning about strict hardware limitations.
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