I used to upgrade for games too, but that was a long time ago. And I assume gamers mostly build their own PCs instead of buying them from HP and Dell. I'm not

I used to upgrade for games too, but that was a long time ago. And I assume gamers mostly build their own PCs instead of buying them from HP and Dell. I'm not sure if the newer versions of Windows are slower, but an iMac I bought in 2009 which now runs the latest version of Mac OS X feels just as fast today as it did back then. The only hardware upgrade that I think is worth it these days is going from a regular spinning HDD to an SSD. That jump is massive and I can understand why manufacturers might hold back on pushing SSDs for now: it gives them a bit of room in the future to sell better performance (you just can't notice differences in CPU performance doing email, web, audio and video). If that's what they're doing...