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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Do you remember when you were 3 y.o. and thought walking/runnning was fast as you finally were able to do it?
With 6 you thought riding a bicycle was fast.
With 16 only a car would do, but with 25 you realized how slow your parents car was, since the car you bought was way faster?
Then you got your first speeding ticket because you completely overlooked how fast you were driving because it didn’t feel fast anymore.
PCs are faster and they do way more loading and preparing than they did ever before at start and overall, but we are used to that speed now and speed you get used to is average and not fast anymore.
The day I got my first SSD I was in awe about how fast my PC /programs were starting. Now I have SSDs for years and my PC feels slow at start when it really isn’t, except when I have 100 programs in auto start, but that’s my fault. A Formula 1 car would also be slow if it had to drag a truck load of stuff behind it when trying to get to maximum speed.
Also most people do not own the latest and most resource hungry programs and games, so less waiting.
If you need to be part of the “always the best/newest” crowd you will need to upgrade your machine to fit that and make sure drivers and Updates get updated regularly and from time to time cleaning up unused software, auto start and left over files is necessary. Like with the best Formula 1 cars, they are never done making them better and faster and getting rid of everything that slows them down, but then the other cars get faster too and the process starts over agein.
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