Why your NEW computer is SLOWER than your OLD computer!

I like this guy.  I noticed this 31 years ago when I bought my first computer (my parents had them--they bought their first in 1981).  It was a Gateway 2000, equipped with about as much RAM as I could get, and a Pentium P100 processor (P120 was available).  I spent about $3000 on it.  It came with Win 3.11 installed, and a voucher for Win95 which was supposed to ship "anytime".  Once I did install Win95, I remember it had some cool graphics and wow-factor, but I also notice it bogged down the computer more than Win 3.1 did, and definitely was less stable.  I managed, over the years to hit the bad versions of Windoze--my next computer shipped with WinMe, one of the greatest OS disasters of all time.

Needless animation drives me insane, especially when it is lengthy and/or slow.

I got my first iPhone in 2009, and when I first started using it, I thought the animations were pretty cool.  They very quickly became bothersome.  Then I started jailbreaking that phone, and every subsequent iPhone I had because one of the hacks I could then install was an animation control--I could set the animations to play several times faster, and that made the phone quicker to use overall.  Eventually, Apple more or less fixed that, not by adding the additional control, but by cutting way back on animations overall, though there are still some app developers who must staff their animation departments with disgruntled employees.  Apple does still ship with some whiz-bang glitz and glitter, but thanks to accessibility, much of it can be toned down or turned off altogether.

Jason

Who cares. 

To tell me the operation of this computer is slower than an old one is not the experience I'm getting. Sure, if I stripped it down and took out a lot of the features users now expect, it would run faster but to what real benefit? Computers are now made for the desires of the masses, not a bunch of focused applications.  Yes, my Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect worked, but features compared to current Excel and Word were pretty poor.

Reminds me of the story published years ago in either Road and Track or similar sports car enthusiast magazine. They took a Maserati (I believe) made for Le Mans and went on a trip from the North-east US to Florida. The Maserati obviously had no problem meeting or exceeding by a large margins the speed limit but it wasn't too long before they were really missing the comfort and features provided by a regular car of the era.

Anybody want to go back to determining and then setting IRQ and IO base addresses on peripheral boards with wire-cutters and a soldering iron (before DIP-switches)? This setup could be seen as some of the "bloat" in a modern computer.