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No this has actually been measured by people.

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

The computers are faster, can do more stuff, and monitors have higher frame rates. But for many applications that aren't games latency and non-responsive UIs are a growing problem.



I remember being able to type faster than the machine could keep up an an old Mac. (Maybe a Mac plus?).

I couldn't type up handwritten notes reliably, because half a page in, I would fill up the buffer and characters would get dropped.


If you want to relive that experience, just use voice.google.com.


Or the desktop Outlook client.


<cough> Android Studio. I'm pretty sure code completion used to be way faster and less intrusive (pop up with suggestions comes up when you're finished typing the keyboard, decides to pick a random thing, erases your keyword).


Ouch. "finished typing the keyword" not "keyboard".

I don't think I could have typoed this, there must be a spell checker somewhere that I haven't disabled...


That input lag is true, but that is not the argument the article is presenting.

The article argues that keyboard is a better interaction hardware than mouse. Google Maps doesn't work exactly as he wanted. Popups everywhere, etc.




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