>>>>>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.
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>>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.

My point is that a PC bought with the original release of XP would probably not run 7.