"recommended" system specs (Score 1)

...128Mb RAM, 2Gb disk space

yea, listen, I am sorry, but I am still laughing. (with tears in my eyes)

when I read this I though of *sucking freebsd through my 9600baud modem on my i386, 6 years ago*

seriously,
Why does windows 98/NT/whatever have to be so bloaded? I mean...we all know that "graphically oriented" OSs/desktops like windows need more disk space and faster processors and more video memory. But this Windows XP thing, with 64Mb (I believe it is) recommended video memory, looks to me like it has some serious gas problems.

which leads me to my question:

do you really think (in your opinion, we all know that the final decision depends on the 8th and 9th Networking layers (the relgious and political)) that sticking with the wintel solution is the right way to go?

lately I have just noticed that vendors such as Intel do keep turning the clockspeeds up but what about actually advancing in technology?