The wild thing to me is a computer from 2005 running (a fresh install of) Windows XP feels more snappy and responsive than a computer from 2025 running Windows 11. Everything about the newer machine is somewhere between 4 and 10,000 times more powerful; processor clock speed, core count, cache capacity, RAM capacity, RAM speed, main bus speed, storage speed. I mean, that alone, in 2005 SATA hard disk drives were basically the only option, NVMe SSDs are considerably faster. But how is it that machines felt snappy back in the day but are now utterly useless?
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