Comment by p_ing

> It didn't used to be so bad.

As someone who back in the day worked on plenty of Dell ultralights running 4200 RPM drives and 5400 RPM drives at best, yes, yes it was "so bad". [And these devices were on the REDMOND domain!]

Anything else is rose-colored glasses, the same glasses people wear when they reminisce about the glory days of Windows 2000 or XP, absolutely forgetting what a security nightmare they were, or the boot times of Windows 2000 (when we used to regularly shutdown rather than suspend), or the not-so-uncommon BSODs, either from native Windows components or 3rd party drivers, etc.