On: The computers are fast, but you don't know it

[lmm]

If faster software was worth anything to people surely they'd pay for it.

[Dylan16807 → lmm]

That only applies to homo economicus.

[knorker → Dylan16807]

And ones with a choice.

Given the choice between program X and program X plus higher speed at higher cost, some will choose the latter.

But that's never the choice. All else is not equal.