I agree..Don't laugh too hard here,, but my old computer doesn't crash or load V4 slow  and anyone who has seen my gallery knows how much I love to use props...and cram stuff into a pic. 
My old pc has 384 mb of ram...it's a 1.2 ghz and my old video card is only 34 mb.
BUT, I run regular maintenance on it and I don't run a lot of trash in the background...just my anti-virus and my firewall and I made sure that those do the job without eating up resources.
I don't let a screen saver run in the background and no desktop themes.
You would be surprised how much speed you can get when you turn off all the trash and keep your pc defragged....

 

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