Unless you enjoy rebooting, why not run Windows 7 in a VM on newer hardware?

Hmmmm. I had not considered this. I guess I am in a rut with more than one project going all the time so I never took the time to look for other options.

I did buy a new pc several years ago when the T5400 started to have problems on reboot and I found a couple of bad caps. I figured it was only a matter of time. Oddly enough that still seems to be true.