GA Russel it's not always the users 't are the OSes demanding more power because of the eye candy they force down your throat.
I haven't actually bought a new desktop since years - I use the ones up my little win using sis discards because they become too weak for the kind of actual windows versions which in order are expected by newer versions off applications
My actual desktop is an AthlonXP 1800+ with 1G Ram doing basically all i need it to be able to. With Linux.
I got a new laptop gifted recently - this one runs win 7 and often enough seems to be slower than the old box. unfortunately they don't give OS install media anymore with them there are only this pest of restore partitions and screwed MBRs so I can't properly install even a dual boot w/o irrestorably wrecking the only win copy i possess for this box...
boxcorner: nah i think you are wrong - would it be so, then the japaneze being called even more gadget-crazy than all western cultures together wouldn't fi in the image since it's still said that behaviour means a lot there
('d be interested in 1st eye reports here)
According with that I think it's the prohibition of duelling that lead to a decay of manners.