My least favorite type of latency is when you start typing and the application takes at least 1 - 2 seconds to catch up with you. This still happen to me often enough to be a normal occurrence on both my desktop computer and phone.
I'm not talking latency with the keyboard - I'm talking voice input when the receiver hits latency. If I'm using voice, I generally can't see the screen.
It's a source of infuriating spell-checking. When C int becomes nt.
Now if it's always doing that -- like a 1-2 second delay more than a few times in 10 minutes, for instance, it's terrible. But if it's a one-off, I don't mind it.
Same here! My old laptop did this and it was a thrill to see how much you could write before it started coming in at lightning speed.
Most people, including technical folks, don't complain (unless extremely agitated) because they know they can do nothing about it but accept it. Doesn't stop making them miserable, though.
> 10 seconds delay
Oh the irony.
Weird thing is when it does this, I'm not using all the memory and the CPU is normally sitting way below 50%.
I've no idea why it sometimes just gets unusably slow.
I get extremely annoyed when applications simply freeze without them doing any important cpu task.