Luke makes some good points about computers getting faster -- they generally aren't for users -- because coders are getting sloppier and we are demanding more out of them all of the time. I know Luke, and so do I reject the fancy window managers that are popular, but still even if you don't use the resource intensive window managers, software in general from the web browsers to video players, are becoming more and more data intensive. Solid state drives are a bright spot in speed, but still technology just gets heavier and heavier, even as the raw speed gets faster.