His main machine is off the scale fast... he does massive amounts of video editing and runs 24 gigs of ram and state of the art everything.

I just surf the web, do a lot of image editing, and watch netflix and movies... if you aren't doing a lot of hard core online gaming or video work you really don't need that much and think gaming is what has really driven technology forward as lots of these require some massive power.

My earliest experiences with computers started with tape drives, had one of the early generation Macs when 2 megs of ram and 100 megs of external hard drive was the sweetest ride on the block and cost you over $3500.00.



My old desktop machine, from which I now do a lot of work is a 10 year old P1 with a whopping gig of ram running XP... will upgrade the OS to Windows 7 and see if I can't find a P3 chipset for the board to make it a more capable shop computer.