Having just completed a drawing unit in art school, for which a major assessment task was a self-portrait in graphite pencil, I can say with some confidence that this is an unusually good account. Hell, it's excellent.
2020, I have a 4 Core CPU, 8Gb of RAM, and loading a webpage that contains text and pictures makes my browser slowdown for about 10 sec.
Also, Medium is really not well optimized for big articles with lots of pictures.