IDK what you're doing to your computers, but I frequently have multiple enormous Word documents open, 50+ tabs open in Firefox, with various sundry apps running

IDK what you're doing to your computers, but I frequently have multiple enormous Word documents open, 50+ tabs open in Firefox, with various sundry apps running in the background. Throughout all that, almost always the perceived delay between me hitting a key on the keyboard, and having it appear in Word, is zero milliseconds. For text, Notepad++ has always been pretty snappy on all the points you mentioned.