The Price of Progress
It has just taken my computer 37 seconds to open a new word file to write this post. It may not sound like a lot but it is a long time, try it. When I first ventured into the realms of the interwebby I got my self Norton Security, a sort of PC condom to protect myself from all those nasty viruses. It does a weekly system scan. Back in them days it took 10 minutes and there was a slight slowing down of the system. Nowadays it takes 70 minutes and makes the PC almost unusable. And it's not like my hard drive is crammed full. I'm very choosy about what programmes I load onto it and I keep all my personal stuff on a spare.
Except of course on those Monday evenings when there is football on. On those Mondays I turn the fokker off and watch the football.
Moral: Innovation works for a while but when it gets too successful it chokes.
1 comments:
How old's your PC? My mac's from 2005 and still pretty fast, considering (and it doesn't need a virus checker)...
Built-in obsolescence is a way of computer life, though. Well that and relatively fast advances in technology. Not sure what the answer is, but I'd say about 5 years of service out of a computer is doing well. All the better if it's upgradeable.
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