And since on a modern graphics card you're lucky to get one analogue output, let alone two, I am also finally replacing the ageing CRTs with a pair of LCDs (
That's about it for Nyx - to upgrade it any further would require a motherboard replacement, and to be honest a Core 2 Quad Q6600 is still a reasonable processor. However that's not the only system I've got... yes, Aether is also being upgraded (
Finally, Aether is also going to be upgraded to Windows 7. Probably Professional - Home Premium would likely be sufficient, but I'd end up missing the extra features from Pro. I've found drivers for everything, even the GPU (or rather Windows Update contains drivers for everything which is enough to get started with), so that's not an issue, and XP is getting increasingly problematic as more and more software these days assumes Windows 7 as a baseline. Firefox is an example here - some digging suggests that it does actually support video hardware acceleration in the form of DXVA2, but only on Windows Vista or later. So despite the higher system requirements the laptop should perform better.
Windows 10 is probably a bad idea though.
Long-term I'm waiting to see what happens with the new retro ThinkPad that Lenovo are considering. The currently crop of ThinkPads aren't actually that nice to use - $WORK has issued me a T440p with the worst touchpad ever (and the Trackpoint is hardly better because they removed the buttons for it) - but it looks like they're seriously considering releasing an actual ThinkPad. If and when that does happen then I may well upgrade to it, but given that it's probably a year away I think it makes sense to keep the R50p going.