So you’ve had your computer a year or so now and you’ve noticed it’s not that lightning fast computer you first turned on…why?

There are several things in play here, since you noticed that the speed isn’t what it used to be.  Perception, hardware, software to name the obvious.  When you first bought your computer, it was so much faster than your old one.  Hence the term “old”, maybe not a dinosaur, but by current hardware standards it is definitely “old”.

The hardware itself, is the latest…greatest…fastest and that may seem light years faster than your last computer.  Processors are much more powerful, no longer a singe core, but up to six and even eight core processors.  And the code is no longer transferred in… Continue reading →