I totally agree that Win 7 is a huge step forward compared to XP !
And an even bigger step forward compared to Vista (no it's not a mistake, I know what I'm talking 'bout

).
But Win 7 needs a somewhat powerful computer to make it run well, so sometimes it's not worth it to get only the OS, it will just be really slow.
Personnaly I'm fine with my old laptop, it does not run well any modern game, but I can play anything relatively smoothly when lowering graphics (1024*768 and all to the bottom). I never thought i could get Skyrim to run on it for exemple, but it does, and (relatively) good.
I think the right phraseology would be something like ''you COULD upgrade".
We should make a club of low-end machines users, I wonder how many we are?
mmmh gone a bit off the road here.
Does anyone tried CoD in DX9 mode? I would really enjoy this game, even if it has the lights/reflections, etc of Il2 46.