Like literally, I have a Pentium MMX 200 Mhz (64 MB RAM, 8 GB CF Card) machine right next to my Surface Pro 9 (i5 1235U, 16GB RAM, 2 TB SSD). The Pentium (running Windows 98 SE) demolishes my Surface Pro 9 (running Windows 11) in opening applications, and UI latency. I can literally open about 30 copies of Windows Explorer before Windows 11 opens a single one. Honestly the only thing that's really slower is booting since it takes forever in the BIOS stage.
Modern software is just slow. We've given up all of the advantages of our orders of magnitude faster I/O.
Like literally, I have a Pentium MMX 200 Mhz (64 MB RAM, 8 GB CF Card) machine right next to my Surface Pro 9 (i5 1235U, 16GB RAM, 2 TB SSD). The Pentium (running Windows 98 SE) demolishes my Surface Pro 9 (running Windows 11) in opening applications, and UI latency. I can literally open about 30 copies of Windows Explorer before Windows 11 opens a single one. Honestly the only thing that's really slower is booting since it takes forever in the BIOS stage.
Modern software is just slow. We've given up all of the advantages of our orders of magnitude faster I/O.