Understanding as we do the nature of computing, and having as we do a 20+ year history with said devices, we are occasionally briefly astounded that, say, the our thumbdrive has more storage capacity than all the computers we owned prior to 1999 combined.

This does not, however, make it ok that we curse and become frustrated with our current platform if it slows down even a little bit when doing all of the following:

• Playing music over the stereo via wifi;
• Running a virtualized Windows XP machine containing Outlook, IE, and PowerPoint;
• Periodically checking email from 4 servers;
• Periodically polling some 200+ rss feeds;
• all while having an editor, a personal Wiki, a note/document repository app, Word, an outliner, and a dozen Firefox windows open.