My computer's too slow

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1461959]

You can't buy a computer nowadays that's too slow to run Word Processors/Spreadsheets/Web browsers on.

So what would you be able to do on your computer if it was faster that you can't now?

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[the-magician.livejournal.com]

What could I do?

Play Bejewelled Blitz without the machine freezing for up to seven seconds at a time.

Convert all my US TV AVIs to iPod and iPhone compatible MP4s for watching while travelling.

Create complex multi-part musical pieces with "live" effects on each track so they could all be tweaked/remixed later.

A lot of things don't *need* speed, they can just take two-to-ten times as long to complete ... but that really screws around with workflow because it means some things are too painful to do, other things aren't "instant" so you lose focus or momentum.

A lot of multi-tasking things (watching video while converting other videos, downloading multiple torrents, have gmail updating, virus checker updating, java updating etc.)

My main PC is seven years old now (2.4Ghz Pentium 4 with 1.5Gb of RDRAM) and even disk transfers are really going very very slowly now ... (yes, I've defragmented the disk, doesn't seem to have had much effect)