Exactly. At my work, we IM each other quite a bit (even though we are all in the same general area.. but it would be too much work to take off our headphones :P) So it is very handy being able to touch type.
TL;DR for the post above: "non-touch-typists have to make sacrifices in order to sustain their productivity." If you can't pay attention long enough to read, you don't deserve it :)
Thinking about it.. Pentium's are/were great computers.. I am still using a P4 for my AVR development workstation running Arch Linux, and I am yet to make it go sluggish :D But of course, I am only using bash/vim/gcc...