Back to the Future.

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If I have to be really fast, I start the fastest Mac one can currently buy (I have it). Then I go to my 12 year old PPC running Mac OS 10.4.11 and start it. LC 10.5.2 was opened at startup, I write 10 lines of code, run them and I'm done.

Then I go back to the fastest Mac one can currently buy. It has meanwhile booted, fast checked and (incrementally) backed up the disk and I watch it loading the 750 Mbyte of LC 7.0 from its 2 TB disk in its 16 GB RAM. Wow! I'll wait again two seconds, then it's ready to use. How good I feel! 

Both things need about the same time that a MacPlus needed to start up its 560 KByte OS and to load it into its 4 MByte RAM.

Do you see what I mean? In general you may be right and I'm with you to have good new things. But sometimes there is also 'Much Ado About Nothing'.

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