Whoa now friend. The 1541 is a computer onto itself. The slow loading was because of Commodore’s desire to keep backwards compatibility with the VIC-20 drive,

Whoa now friend. The 1541 is a computer onto itself. The slow loading was because of Commodore’s desire to keep backwards compatibility with the VIC-20 drive, which used a buggy 6522 chip, not because the 64 couldn’t go faster. BTW, if you want to run GEOS faster, get an REU and let the DMA transfer fun begin. This is 2016 after all; you must keep up with the times :)