In indeed. My wife has a work laptop with an i7, 16GB Ram, fast SSD and 802.11ax network. Just starting it up in the morning and just going through Outlook email takes longer than it did 10 years ago on 2Gb Core2Duo laptops.
It seems most of the hardware these days is used to run Windows/software updates and corporate security theatre malware.
It seems most of the hardware these days is used to run Windows/software updates and corporate security theatre malware.