>>Sounds like you haven't been following hardware requirements for Win7 or Win8 compared to the versions just before them. (OK, compare Win7 to XP, Vista was an anomaly)
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>>>I would rarely upgrade an operating system. Certainly with WIndows the hardware requirements usually make it pointless.
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>Really
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>(from Microsoft)
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>The minimum hardware requirements for Windows XP Professional include:
>Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
>At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
>At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
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>If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
>1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
>1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
>16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
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>so thats upgrade the processor
>get a lot more RM and I need ten times as much free disc space.

The reqs for 7 are very reasonable in today's world, IMO.