erm I'm calm. please don't tell me what to do or feel.

headlines mean nothing. tis an old trick in newspapers to give a headline that means little to the article. eg : Vicar screws mrs  Door!

a story about a vicar having problems attaching a handle to a married friends door.

so point having been made, read the articles you quote. for all you know the next line is 'and the ram usage dropped in half in the next few seconds'

oh and on windows 7, I'm running the damn thing and have been for months on a Dual Core AMD 64 with NONE of the problems you are yelling at ppl - it's faster than the XP install on the other partition.

I'll go by my own experiences thanks.