It is sad that you have to buy the most powerful computer loaded with tons of memory and high power graphics card just to run the operating system. I can understand having to upgrade computers to run the latest high-powered applications, but not just to run the operating system. Nothing but bloatware.
Actually you can run the OS with all eyecandy turned on with a 100 dollar GPU, 1 gig of memory and any modern processor and HD with about 40gb's, allowing 15 for the OS. That will run most people about 400 dollars, hardly top o the line stuff. Really its no different than moving from Windows 3.1 to Win95, had to stop using that old 386 33mhz processor system.