Speed Is the Killer Feature

Re:Speed Is the Killer Feature by why_Mr_Anderson on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @07:30AM (#26314596)

Long time ago I worked at a hospital and once had to go to a certain department to fix something on computer nurses were using and was horrified how slow the computer and everything was. So I asked around and ladies happily explained their daily morning routine: - turn on computer - do a morning checkup of all patients (around 20 minutes) - when they got back, computer usually finished starting Windows, if not, they waited another 10+ minutes for it to get ready - then they started Word (another 10 minutes) - and opened their main document with notes..or to be exact wanted to open the document. That took another 10 minutes

TL;DR - users can get used to pretty much anything because they don't know it could be so much better

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Re:Speed Is the Killer Feature by benhurmarcel on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:17AM (#26314955)

They also don't have a choice.

My company, like many, bloats Windows with security software. We have the type of PC where McAfee uses 80% of resources for an hour every Monday morning. PCs with spinning hard drives take a good 15-20 minutes to fully boot, and some engineers still have those. Those who complain just get told to wait a few years for their planned laptop replacement, to finally get an SSD.

There's no solution, so users just cope.

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