Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits 128 GT/s

It seems like we're stuck at a pre-set level of latency, which is just within what people tolerate. I was watching a video of someone running Windows 3.11 and notice that the windows closes instantly, which on Windows 10 and 11 I've never seen there NOT be a small delay between the user clicking close and the window disappearing.

I booted and used an old computer recently. Not Windows 3.11 old, but old enough to have a mechanical hard drive.

The experience was anything but low latency. It’s easy to forget just how slow mechanical hard drives were in the past.

Modern desktops are extremely fast. Closing a window and having a tiny delay doesn’t bother me in the slightest because it has zero impact in my workflow.

I can launch code editors quickly, grep through files at an incredible rate, and compile large projects with a dozen threads in parallel. Getting worked up over a split second delay in closing a window is not a concern in the slightest.

Regardless, it has nothing to do with next generation PCIe bandwidth. I don’t understand why this is the top voted comment on this otherwise interesting article. Is HN just a place to find creative ways to be cynical and complain about things these days?