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It honestly gives me a warm fuzzy feeling thinking about how blazing fast personal computers are these days.

It's instantaneous compared to the 90s and even the 2000s. It wasn't until 2010-2012 that I remember switching to SSD, which is when I feel the turning point was.

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I had a netbook around this time and putting an SSD in it was a HUGE upgrade (similarly the upgrade from 2 to 4GB RAM).

I still have it, and when I put an 32bit version of Debian on it a couple years ago, it was molasses. Somehow I used it for years with no complaints.

When I upgraded my Windows laptop (running Windows NT) from something like 64 MB to 128 MB, it made a huge difference. Most of the benefit was that it stopped using swap. Sadly, I was borrowing the the DIMM from my boss and I had to give it back. It was like flying back on coach after getting there in first class.

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