> I definitely remember waiting what felt like eons for lots of useful apps to load, like Office and Internet Explorer. (Remember when browsers had startup scr

> I definitely remember waiting what felt like eons for lots of useful apps to load, like Office and Internet Explorer. (Remember when browsers had startup screens?) I agree completely. It's definitely disappointing that simple programs like Notepad and Paint are now laggy (I can reproduce the exact same lag on my 2-year old 16-core i7), but computing in general was SLOW back then. Booting a computer often took over 5 minutes. I'd turn it on, prepare a drink and come back to the desktop partially loaded with a laggy 'wait' cursor waiting for my startup programs to finish loading. Launching larger programs such as Word took more than a minute in some instances. You're playing music AND want to open another application? Well that application will open 2x slower now due to lack of RAM. I'd love to see a comparison of a current version of Word on a current machine opening vs Word 2000 on a 2000 machine.