You really should be. I am continually amazed at how, even though computers have become orders of magnitude faster since the early 90s, everything still feels pretty much exactly as slow.

Let me put it this way: A 2nd gen i5 can execute about 6 instructions per cycle per core. At 3Ghz, that's 18 billion instructions every second or 5e-11 seconds per instruction. If each of those instructions is a second to the processor's subjective experience, then 18 billion of them is about 570 years. It takes 3 times that to startup an application for typing text into a document.

I didn't even take multicore into account.