Thousands of dollars and I’m still waiting. This shouldnt be the case… No matter how much of an upgrade I invest into a new computer, I’m always waiting for it to load things. When is the lightning fast chunk of awesome coming into my life?
I spent the entire sum of my earnings from my first job on a new computer 10 years ago and it cost me $2,000. I hooked it up and opened Internet Explorer right away and was disappointed that the page loaded just as long as on my family computer upstairs. Damn. I later learned of course that internet speed and computer processing speeds are different but it still sucked. The Dell setup I had invested my hard earned money in was okay. Nothing spectacular in terms of speed. It lasted 4 years before I had had enough and got a new one. this time a $4,500 monster that was twice as big as the previous one. It was okay on speed for awhile but got too painfully slow, and I finally switched to Mac for good.
Now I have a $5,000 Mac Pro with 16gb of memory a 3.2 ghz Quad core processor and 4 hard drives. and I still have programs freeze and long delays when processing various tasks.
Next move will be to go for a SSD (Solid state drive – ie, flash drive) which is considerably and noticeably faster as my 4gb of memory Macbook Pro with a SSD is about the same speed as my Mac Pro desktop. but theres a deeper issue I realized here and that is that i’m doing more things and one time on these more powerful machines. Each time I upgrade to more power, I do more. I’m like a goldfish growing to the size of the bowl you put it in. These computers are slowing down because I’m using their power to – right now for example: render 720p HD video, run 2 open videos in Quicktime, download 4 large files, upload 2 files, run iTunes an video file converter (Evom) and browse through about 80 open tabs dispersed in various windows of 3 open browsers (Firefox, Chrome & Safari).
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