>>>>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)
>>>>
>>>>>I would rarely upgrade an operating system. Certainly with WIndows the hardware requirements usually make it pointless.
>>>
>>>Really
>>>
>>>(from Microsoft)
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>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)
>>>
>>>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.
>
>I agree but the point was that if you had a PC which would run XP bought when XP was new it probably would not have the spec tun run Win7

I thought it was assumed that you had to account for technology "inflation" for 10+ years.