Products · Broad category
Modern laptops
Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 14 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Computers respond to keyboard input more slowly than older machinesUnreviewed
20142026- Key presses take noticeably longer to appear on screen than on older machines2022-07-04
- Modern computer UI feels perceptually slow compared to older IRIX machines2020-07-04
- Computers feel laggy and sluggish compared with the immediate response of older machines2020-07-01
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 14 complaints
- Accidental taps exit programs or open sidebars, so cause and effect is hard to connect2026-06-21
- Modern computers boot to fancy icons with no easy programming environment, hard for newcomers to tinker with2024-03-22
- Key presses take noticeably longer to appear on screen than on older machines2022-07-04
- Keyboard layouts are reinvented, so Home, End and PgUp/PgDn keys are hard to find and muscle memory fails2022-01-10
- Cursor and Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys are squeezed or hidden behind Fn combos2021-10-16
- Modern laptop keyboards are impossible to use because design prioritises thinness2020-08-10
- Modern computer UI feels perceptually slow compared to older IRIX machines2020-07-04
- Computers feel laggy and sluggish compared with the immediate response of older machines2020-07-01
- Older users are baffled by multi-button mice and when to left or right click2020-02-21
- Users must wait far longer than a few milliseconds for actions to complete on modern devices2020-02-19
- Modern computers feel slower to respond to keyboard input than older machines2019-08-19
- Modern machines feel laggy and slow to respond compared with old Amiga computers2019-08-14
- Hides files, processes and scripting, so productive tasks are hard to do2017-07-30
- Hard to access memory directly without using C or assembly2014-03-27