because there are people using computers for other things besides jacking off in Office? Important things!
You want NASA to run on 486s, or your bank? How about the hospitals?
WTF? The number of people that work for NASA or a bank are minuscule subset of the world's computer users. Just coz they might find a use for more than a gig of two of ram doesn't mean 99.99% of everyone else will.
And what were the specs of the computers used to send men to the moon?
Most hospitals around us run fairly low spec'd machines, beacsue its all they need for a patient database-yeah and i know about remote live video for diagnostics is A Good Thing, but its a niche thing that is mostly never needed.
Yeah lets just throw out all the newest technology and slam down some frigging IMSAIs all over the place, just because the people you work with are frigging retards.
Newer technology has its place-in the not too distant past, there were users who NEEDED the power of a Cray, now people are logging on to facebook or watching a poor quality you-tube of someone's cat with the a better-specced machine, saying they NEED that 8 Gig 8 core behemoth.
If you can afford >4gb of RAM, you can probably afford a 64bit CPU and OS installation, so stop whining and fix the problem.
AAh the motto upon which the PC market is built on:"If it doesn't run fast enough, buy new hardware", which really means "make it run slow, so you HAVE to". And the only reason why people accept it is because its cheap to upgrade so people just shrug and do it.
Except there is a looming shortage of rare earth metals, so unless they find another way to make the circuitry, it aint gonna be so cheap to upgrade forever.
