@rupaa62
The thing is - while YOU personally may only have ONE PC in your house, there are plenty of people out there who have more than one. Mom and Dad might share one or have one each and depending on how many kids they have, they may have 2 or 3 additional systems in house. A family pack makes sense for situations like that.
NOT all hardware is junk. My system is going on 5 years old and surprisingly, it' s just fine for running Win 7. It ran fine on a single core Athlon 64 3400+ with 1 GB of RAM. I did do some upgrades - but NOT because Windows needed more resources. I did an upgrade because a game I wanted to play was more slide show than game without them.
Either way - there were ZERO driver issues. All of the hardware on the motherboard was found and fully supported without having to go out of my way. About the only thing I had to download was a driver for my color laserjet printer. No big deal. HP had a newer one available than the one I last downloaded when I installed Vista.
For what it's worth - Microsoft has a free, downloadable upgrade advisor for Windows 7. You just download, install and run it and it will tell you what issues you might have with your system running Win 7. It will tell you if you need new hardware or software. The smart thing to do would be to spend 20 minutes grabbing it and letting it do it's thing. It'll tell you if your current hardware will support Win 7 or if you need to buy a new system. Not everyone out there is running an ancient boat anchor P3 box with 256 MB of RAM...
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