is "how pitifully slow my old laptop has become" a whinge about speed that has decreased over time (that is, length of time to execute some specific task is greater in 2007 than it was several years ago); or is it a whinge that "new computers can do these tasks faster than my old computer could do it". Has the laptop slowed down, like a puppy getting older and grey about the muzzle; or have your expectations of speed increased?
I say this as someone who once played "Frogger" on a PET computer in the early 80s, and the game was on a cassette tape and took 20min to load before you could play it.
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Date: 2007-05-30 01:18 pm (UTC)is "how pitifully slow my old laptop has become" a whinge about speed that has decreased over time (that is, length of time to execute some specific task is greater in 2007 than it was several years ago); or is it a whinge that "new computers can do these tasks faster than my old computer could do it". Has the laptop slowed down, like a puppy getting older and grey about the muzzle; or have your expectations of speed increased?
I say this as someone who once played "Frogger" on a PET computer in the early 80s, and the game was on a cassette tape and took 20min to load before you could play it.