There's a lot of truth in that CG.
I built this PC nearly six years ago, and though I did successfully bid on ebay for a cheap CPU upgrade and have also replaced the original graphics to support connection to my TV Cinema, It does everything I need pretty quickly.
The only scope for a really noticeable improvement is the transition to SSD for the OS, Apps and associated data.
That's the real reason I'll eventually get round to replacing it, more for connectivity than just performance. It's run out of SATA space and I just couldn't fit another box inside.
On the question of performance, does any of you have experience of Excel handling large spreadsheets ?
I've just converted my accounts from 123 to LibreOffice Calc in order to make use of RC rather than A1 addressing and it's entirely successful in achieving some improvements which would not be possible in A1, but the startup time is astonishingly extended.
The 123 version, which is over 15Mb on disk, starts the program, loads the data, calculates the half-million cells and is ready to roll in three seconds from clicking the shortcut. Similarly clicking "save" completes in a blink.
LibreOffice, though working acceptably quickly in use, takes about 90 seconds from cold to ready, and about 30 seconds to save despite the fact that the same data only occupies 2.4Mb.
Is this just down to LO, or are all modern examples of SS code as bloated ?
Does anyone have a very complex Excel SS load time as a benchmark ?
An 8 core CPU and a 6Gb/s SSD, should improve things somewhat, but I think it really shows the benefit of using code written when the programmers had to be parsimonious with system resources, if you can still get it to work.