![]() ![]() Looking again on how I made that mistake: I searched for “Surface Go 2” in Bing, I landed on the “Surface Laptop Go 2” page, and copied what I saw there without noticing that it wasn’t accurate.Īll apps had been previously open, so they should all have been comfortably sitting in RAM. Oh, and yes, I quoted the wrong hardware specs in the original tweet. Now look at opening the same apps on Windows 11 on a Surface Go 2 (quad-core i5 processor at 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, SSD). ![]() This is not a powerful machine by any means, but: first, it’s running the verbatim Microsoft experience, and second, it should be much more powerful than the K7 system, shouldn’t it? We are continuously reminded that any computer or phone today has orders of magnitude more power than past machines. This is a 3-year old machine that shipped with Windows 10, but Windows 11 is officially supported on it-and as you know, that means you are tricked into upgrading. □ /YEO824vIqI- Julio Merino June 22, 2023Ī Surface Go 2 with an Intel Core m3 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and an SSD running Windows 11. Note how incredibly snappy opening apps is. In this video, a machine from the year ~2000 (600MHz, 128MB RAM, spinning-rust hard disk) running Windows NT 3.51. Please remind me how we are moving forward. ![]() All this is to say that this machine was indeed overpowered for the OS I used. Hardware was experiencing really fast improvements back then, particularly in CPU speeds, and you were kinda expected to keep up with the 2-year upgrade treadmill or suffer from incredibly slowness. This was a machine from the year 1999-2000 with an OS that was about 5 years older than it. The videos were unplanned because the idea for the Tweets came to mind when I booted the old machine, clicked on Command Prompt, and was blown away by the immediacy to start the app.Īn AMD K7-600 with 128MB of RAM and a 5400 RPM HDD running Windows NT 3.51. That said, I knew repeating the experiment “properly” would yield the same results, so I plowed ahead with whatever I had right then. The initial comparison I posted wasn’t fair and I was aware of that going in. Let’s address the elephant in the room first. At the same time, while UIs were much more responsible on computers of the past, those computers were also awful in many ways: new systems have changed our lives substantially. To open up, I’ll stand my ground: latency in modern computer interfaces, with modern OSes and modern applications, is terrible and getting worse. Obviously some people had issues with my claims, but there seems to be an overwhelming majority of people that agree we have a problem. And boom, the likes and reshares started coming in. I questioned how computers are actually getting better when trivial things like this have regressed. You can clearly see how apps on the old computer open up instantly whereas apps on the new computer show significant lag as they load. In each video, I opened and closed a command prompt, File Explorer, Notepad, and Paint. To summarize, the Twitter thread shows two videos: one of an old computer running Windows NT 3.51 and one of a new computer running Windows 11. Now that things have cooled down, it’s time to stir the pot and elaborate on those thoughts a bit more rationally. ![]() I really could not have predicted that, given that I’ve been posting what-I-believe-is interesting content for years and… nothing, almost-zero interest. I recorded a couple of crappy videos in 5 minutes, posted them on a Twitter thread, and went viral with 8.8K likes at this point. ![]()
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