[colechristensen]

You were probably also using several thousand dollar computers.

Try making the same claim using a thrift store laptop for < $200 which is all the computing power a whole lot of people have access to (if any). Yes computing is fine (and a little better than 20 years ago) for software made and used by wealthy people. You have to slide down the curve a bit to discover the frustration with everything being terribly hungry for ever-increasing resources.

[sokoloff]

Isn't that directly contrary to GP's claim of "look at how ridiculously powerful our computers are and they're still so slow" though? Of course slow computers are slow.

[colechristensen]

Today's cheap slow computers are yesterday's supercomputers.

Of course if you upgrade to a top quartile computer every few years you're going to have a relatively good time.

$200 computers obey Moore's law too.