RAM, harddisks, monitors, optical media are getting larger, McDonald meals are being supersized while people are getting bigger, boobs and d*cks are being enlarged...
I had a chuckle on this one!!!
Yes it should be a no brainer that in 2006 you will have bloated OS's and Apps with lots of eye candy that, to be usable, need to run on ultra fast machines... The days of simple GUI's are over people... (Amiga DOS, Atari TOS/GEM, MS Windows 3.1) lol