One eye-opening experience for me in this regard was when I installed an old version of Microsoft Excel--I think it was either the 2000 or the 2003 version--on modern hardware. The snappiness of every action was AMAZING. Every click, drag, keystroke felt instant.
It's hard to describe because modern Excel doing typical actions doesn't feel slow and prior to this experience I would have said it was immediately responding to my inputs, but the difference experienced was obvious and felt GREAT even though it was probably only a small number of milliseconds.
It's hard to describe because modern Excel doing typical actions doesn't feel slow and prior to this experience I would have said it was immediately responding to my inputs, but the difference experienced was obvious and felt GREAT even though it was probably only a small number of milliseconds.