Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
its just some mean math to say that windows use to work fine on 32MBs of ram just a decade ago, and now need 2GBs. from Win98 to XP was a big jump (around 100MB to 512-1GB) and from XP to Vista the cpu really needed to be upgraded or its a slideshow without all the visuals turned off.

no OS past Win7 should really need to take up more resources, i cant see what they could possibly need with all that space and power. but in another decade we will laugh at anyone who cant use Win9/10 on less than 10GB and GPU acceleration.

dont read too much into this, the point was that no matter how good the hardware gets, the OS seems to be able to abuse it happily.
I agree totally that software developers use good quality hardware as an excuse to be lazy.

We'll have to agree to disagree on whether or not an OS should raise requirements over the years.