I don't know why some people have so many problems/complaints with downloading the blockchain. I recently installed Armory, and I had the whole blockchain downloaded in around 2 hours.

I assume your internet connection is just slow.

But, as others have said, your logic is fallible. 100 transactions will take the same amount of time to download whether they are in 10 blocks of 10 transactions, or 5 blocks of 20 transactions. Mining speed has nothing to do with it. Also, if you sent an ASIC back in time, the increase in hashing power would cause the Bitcoin network to increase difficulty to maintain the 10 minutes/block speed, so nothing would be different (except the one guy with the ASIC would own all the bitcoins. Ha.)

The number of blocks doesn't matter with so small differences, what matter are the transactions

OK, guys, here is an easy question:

Alice has 10 blocks, each block contains 10 transactions. Bob has 5 blocks, each block contains 20 transactions. Who will validate the blockchain faster?

There will be a difference of 5 hash calculations.  The expensive part is the transaction signature verification, which will take the same amount of time in both cases.  Even a Pentium III can do 390 thousand block hashes per second.  In other words, if the needed data was in memory, it could validate every block hash in the chain in under a second.

Why do you need QT on a low end computer?

I don't understand why you would need to download the blockchain for a cold wallet.

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-0-8-5-released-provides-critical-bug-fixes/

tl;dr upgrade or add this:

Alt coins are likely still vulnerable to the type of transaction that can cause this breakage.

He's trudging through the peak of transaction volume that occurred about 5 months ago during the bubble/crash.  His computer can't process those transactions at the rate they were accepted by the network, so time-wise he is further behind.  Hopefully it will catch up in the lull, but current transaction rates have been high again recently.

Do you even understand how to have a constructive discussion without taking a hostile tone?

too blique .. cheer up, it's only BTC 

Adding a 3rd party service will increase number of links in our technology chain. That's not good. I'll find a better computer, not really a big problem, just a funny one.