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As others have mentioned, this isn't really a win 8 or PC dying phenomenon, PC market has never been this stagnant in requirements before. 10 years ago if your PC was 12 months old you would already be finding stuff it couldn't do, nowadays a 5 or 6 year old machine can meet the majority of users demands. I used to upgrade at least once a year, usually more often. in the past 4 years though I have only done so twice and the latest one I could arguably have gone with just a couple of minor part updates. PC's still dominate computing, just that now the demand has been met, the rapid replacement cycle is no longer needed until something more demanding comes along that everybody needs to do. The reports claiming the end/death of the PC era are idiotic and written by people that fail to understand the market.