Technology is advancing at a much faster rate? How so? I see more of a trend towards taking the same technology and putting it in a smaller package, such as netbooks. Unsurprisingly, many of them still come with XP installed. I think this is where Microsoft really got it wrong with Vista. They seemed to have the expectation that hardware would have advanced so much that the performance hit wouldn't matter, but it DID matter.I'm also seeing a lot more longevity out of hardware. An old 2-3ghz machine is still quite usable for most business tasks, especially if you bump up the RAM. I remember upgrading PCs around offices yearly because the performance gains were so huge. Not so anymore.