Since I cleaned up my old Laptop, I'm still waffling on upgrading to Win 7, since I'm pretty sure it can't handle 8. Only real reason to keep it running XP is my Dad's old scanner. (Which is bigger than the one built into my printer.)
Since my favorite games are kind of old, making it into a dedicated gaming platform is another idea.
There are no drivers for the newer OS. A new dedicated scanner of similar size would set me back more than $200.
Forced obsolescence sucks.