Why aren’t computers faster?

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When I grew up computers were slow and you had to spend a lot of time waiting for programs and games to load, and the startup time for a computer could be minutes. Since then a long time has passed, and with all the progress in technology and science you would think that todays computers would be fast as lightning.

But still I find myself waiting a lot. Especially on a PC, where programs can take ages to start, and keeps crashing now and then. It’s like it doesn’t matter how strong and fast computers gets, the programs are always a step ahead and too big for the computers to handle.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Our best computers have gotten incredibly fast and technology for combining computing power together has also grown significantly.

Your computer may feel slow for a number of reasons: likely either

– doing so many things at the same time for “convenience” (anti virus, syncing files, checking for updates, splitting updates, etc etc) or

– being underpowered relative to modern standards. For example, Windows wants to do certain things and expects a basic standard of computation power that is always increasing as they add features

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