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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It’s sort of the same thing with your living space. If you have a 900 ft² apartment it’s going to seem very full and cluttered. Then you move into a 3,000 ft² home and after a while it’s going to seem really full and cluttered. Just like with computers the more capacity you have, you eventually find a way to fill it up and then overfill it. I assure you, you can build a computer that will run everything lightning fast, but it would be overkill. There is coordination between software programmers and hardware manufacturers to hit that sweet spot where you don’t pay for more computer than you need, just enough to run the programs properly. It’s a fine line so many consumers will fall on the slower side of things as hardware is expensive, and it makes it seem like your computer is never able to keep up with software.
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