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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

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752 points dceddia | 3 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.617s | source
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yomlica8 ◴[23 Jun 23 14:32 UTC] No.36447314[source]▶
It blows my mind how unresponsive modern tech is, and it frustrates me constantly. What makes it even worse is how unpredictable the lags are so you can't even train yourself around it.

I was watching Halt and Catch Fire and in the first season the engineering team makes a great effort to meet something called the "Doherty Threshold" to keep the responsiveness of the machine so the user doesn't get frustrated and lose interest. I guess that is lost to time!

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1. jimt1234 ◴[23 Jun 23 16:27 UTC] No.36449090[source]▶
Recently I re-discovered my old collection of mp3s. I copied them to my laptop and started listening (using VLC). It blew me away how pleasant the experience was, particularly the overall responsiveness, navigating from track-to-track, skipping around in a track, stuff like that. I never really noticed the delays from streaming services until they were gone.
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2. batiudrami ◴[23 Jun 23 23:13 UTC] No.36453512[source]▶
Spotify’s trick when it first launched is that search and playback was so fast it almost felt like you had all the music in the world on your hard drive.

Unfortunately I cannot think of a single thing that has gotten better about Spotify since I started using it, and a lot which has gotten worse.

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3. mwcampbell ◴[24 Jun 23 12:56 UTC] No.36458320[source]▶
Depending on when you started using Spotify, accessibility might have gotten infinitely better. The original Windows app, with its custom GUI toolkit, was completely inaccessible with a screen reader. Then they re-did the UI using Chromium Embedded Framework.