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It doesn't work exactly that way, you will see improvement, but in reality you're still lacking enough to alleviate some waiting. One thing you can't ever have enough of is RAM. A machine bought today will have 4 or 8 GB on average. You can't hardly buy a desktop computer with less than 2 GB.

First time I purchased RAM was in 1991, $50 for a single MB stick, that's megabyte. My 386sx came with 2 with room for 4.... whoopee!. A GB at those prices would cost $50,000. My first hard drive was 103mb and all my friends ogled it. Consensus was it would never get filled. Only a couple years later I had golf games that took twice that space.

Early computing was expensive and hard to keep current. Things are noticably slowing down as one would imagine. Technology gets exponentionally harder to improve upon as things get smaller and smaller to fit on the same wafers.
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