I know, I know. That was bad. But it’s Friday at 5:10, and it just came to me. And I don’t have the energy to censor my cheesiness.

All I’m saying is that I have a 4 year old computer. We put a 3rd generation SSD drive in it. We put a 1GB 3 head video card in and loaded Windows 8 Pro.

This thing flies. I literally don’t wait anymore. No more hour glass. Not even totally sure what the Windows 8 hour glass looks like. The only thing I wait for is pages on the Internet to load. And that’s out of my control. Maybe I should finally splurge for that 50 down by 10 up Internet Comcast connection. We just wired the place with CAT6 cable and a new managed HP switch. Hmmmm…..

I do think Windows 8 is more efficient than versions previous, but two things are helping the speed we are seeing over here. The way Windows 8 splits the processor with the CPU and the GPU. That’s the motherboard and the video card processors. And….SSD. Solid State Drive. No platters and magnets. Just lightning fast read and write times. SSD has downsides to. Topic for another article…

Now…..if only I could type faster!

Written by Bret Erickson of Passkey Computer Services

http://www.passkeyinc.com @passkeycs