90s and 2000s was a pretty different story. These days a 5 year old i7 with 16g of ram is pretty damn fast. Maybe it's a different story if you're running windo

90s and 2000s was a pretty different story. These days a 5 year old i7 with 16g of ram is pretty damn fast. Maybe it's a different story if you're running windows with a big IDE.