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What you're watching is a handheld from 2004 opening menus with no wait. That interface is Sony's XrossMediaBar. On the first PSP it ran inside 32MB of RAM on a 333MHz chip, and nothing else was running. No background apps, no notifications, no server call before a menu could open. The hardware never changed, so Sony tuned the software to one exact target. It worked well enough that the XMB won a Technology and Engineering Emmy in 2006. When Sony brought the same interface to the PS3, the console reserved 48MB of RAM just to run it. More memory for the menu than the entire PSP had. The feeling isn't nostalgia either. Dan Luu measured keyboard-to-screen lag across decades of machines. An Apple IIe from 1983 came in around 30 milliseconds. A 2014 MacBook Pro took about 100. A Windows i7 machine took about 200. Chips got thousands of times faster. The waiting got longer. 🔎 We fact-checked 10 expert AI predictions so you know whose calls are worth listening to. It's free in channel bio. Follow Hyperbolic AI for more content on AI and technology. #psp #sony #retrotech #ux #technology