Another aspect of it is that a lot of the enhancements bought by insane hardware speed is not that crucial to my mind when I use a computer. When booting NT5 .. I realize that just a bit of fading or slide-in once in a while is just about right. Even limited UI framework, with some flicker .. doesn't bother me, and there's a strange feeling of being bare-metal / lean / primitive that felt good the last time I used it.