Be warned: It's a highly technical process that involves "clicking".
I once knew a guy who mastered perfectly the process of clicking, but then I saw him doing a doubleclick. Yep, you heard it right: two consecutive clicks performed quickly one after the other. Before that I didn't know that there are people that can actually do it. Simply put, my mind was blown. It's a very cool trick, you have to see it in real life to fully appreciate it.
There is a Windows update bug that will cause svchost to eat 1gb of ram everytime it does a Windows update check.
There's also another memory eating scenario. Try installing Windows 7 afresh and then try to install all updates from Windows Update. While the installation proceeds, TrustedInstaller.exe starts grabbing gobs of RAM, and the amount keeps creeping up after each update is installed. It can reach 10 gigabytes.
There's many other problems in Windows Update as well. It has always been kind of a hack.
Fun little thing to do:
Take a weak kneed intel Atom board, and do some simple office use tests with it with various older versions of windows. Start with NT4, then use Win2k, the XP, then 7, then 8.1. See how the ability to do simple things degrades as the OS expects more and more hardware just to draw the damned UI.
Go through Vista, 7, 8, and then 10. There would be no meaningful slowdown, and you might even notice that the computer would get slightly more snappy after each upgrade.
Windows 7 at release is fast on a core 2 duo. Today it needs a quad i7 at 3.6ghz or faster and a SSD drive to be as fast as the initial release.
Trash talk. It's likely that the Core 2 Duo machine just had a slow 5400 rpm hard drive. Windows 7 will work smoothly even on an Intel Atom with all updates installed.
When people applaud Apple, design is often one of the things they applaud. How about non-removable batteries as bad design?
Also glossy displays, hard-to-repair assemblies, dust accumulation. Apple should be the "you pay to get a product in which everything is perfect" brand, but there are still glaring deficiencies from an engineering standpoint.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
