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You need really good firmware and storage to actually see this. Otherwise it’s 25s in firmware and 35s to load the OS. If you have a LOT of RAM, that’ll slow things down as a single thread inits all the pages.

Not true.

I have a top of the line Intel processor that’s less than 2 years old (launched, not bought). 970 Evo Pro that’s the one of the fastest drives around. 32 GB RAM (don’t remember the speed but it was and is supposed to be super fast).

Explorer takes a second or two to launch. The ducking start menu takes a moment and sometimes causes the entire OS to lock up for a second.

The twitter rant is spot on.

There’s so much of supposed value add BS that the core usage scenarios go to shit.

And this is coming from a Product Manager. :-)

Anyway the referencing problem is painful. I feel it often. Google maps or Apple Maps. Try to plan a vacation and Mark interesting places on it to identify the best location to stay. Yup gotta use that memory. Well isn’t that one of the rules of UX design, don’t make me think?

Regarding OSes: storage has gotten so much faster and CPUs haven’t, that storage drivers and file systems are now the bottleneck. We need less layers of abstraction to compensate. The old model of IO is super slow is no longer accurate.