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

Reminds me of finding an old laptop in the attic (IBM ThinkPad 760LD). 90MHz Pentium, 8MB of RAM, 810MB of HDD, with Win98 installed. I could boot it and start Excel 4 times in the time it took for my workstation to even get to the desktop. Really nice and snappy usage experience.

Sidenote, look up the ThinkPad 760 series, it had some really cool features. Raise-able keyboard so you could have it at an angle, physical sliders for sound and backlight, easy access to the internals and hot-swappable battery.

thinkpad 760xl here, svga+ screen, 166mhz pentium mmx, 64mb of ram, 2.1gb hdd, typically use it as a dos machine, tho it does have old slackware linux installed. if you still have the laptop, hold on to it, or if you don't want it, please give it one of the many retro groups who can maintain and keep these things going.