Post Generation 7 CPU just to run a program launcher?
Remember, that's all windows is in the long run. It's the software you run on top of it that should get the CPU cycles.
Even if you buy a whizzo new PC just because MS and the CPU/PC manufacturers want to screw the environment for the sake of greed, it's capability will be reduced by the CPU sucking program launcher.
Seriously, how can a program launcher have anything but minimum requirements?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
