[omg_ponies]

IDK what you're doing to your computers, but I frequently have multiple enormous Word documents open, 50+ tabs open in Firefox, with various sundry apps running in the background.

Throughout all that, almost always the perceived delay between me hitting a key on the keyboard, and having it appear in Word, is zero milliseconds.

For text, Notepad++ has always been pretty snappy on all the points you mentioned.

[giantg2]

I agree here if we are talking about personal computers. Work computers can be sluggish depending on how much monitoring software is used or how poorly it is configured.