Crappy computers or crappy anti-malware solutions? My Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 with AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U and 32GB memory is not the fastest machine but plenty fast when forced in boost mode. In Windows-to-go on an external USB3 spinning rust drive at least.
Running the corporate OS however is a whole different story:
- Symantec Endpoint Protection with SONAR enabled, scanning at every file access
- CarbonBlack Response Sensor
- Hive Streaming
- Riverbed Steelhead Mobile
- BeyondTrust Defendpoint
- Nexthink sensor that were installed because people were (are) having performance issues
- Probably other stuff I've missed
Kernel times are through the roof when I look at Task Manager.
Suffice to say, this computer is plenty fast and does its job better when booting Windows from an external harddrive than it does on its internal NVME SSD running the corporate install. Everything is faster, from running git to running builds and automated testing.