way more naive but my first own desktop was a P75, a few years down a friend of a friend got his hand on a batch of P233MMX and I started to fantasize that these could be so fast, the menus may appear before you even finished clicking. I didn't know how non linear computers were at the time.
Few things also, I'm often surprised how fixed is the responsiveness of systems, hardware grew 3-4 orders of magnitude but the cruft and chaos plus the change of resolutions keep latency around the same value. It's sometimes even worse. Psychologically when I boot a 64MB windows machine and can enjoy word / IE / winamp I feel very weird (video could be offloaded to a chromecast for that matter).
Few things also, I'm often surprised how fixed is the responsiveness of systems, hardware grew 3-4 orders of magnitude but the cruft and chaos plus the change of resolutions keep latency around the same value. It's sometimes even worse. Psychologically when I boot a 64MB windows machine and can enjoy word / IE / winamp I feel very weird (video could be offloaded to a chromecast for that matter).