"And, even if I did, upgrading the PC would cost almost as much as a GameCube anyway--a video card that doesn't suck is over $100, and a Celeron 433 processor is, by game standards, at the trailing edge of technology."
If you buy at a regular computer store, maybe. Buy at a hole-in-the-wall PC reseller and you'd be amazed what you can get. last week, i built myself a new 1.2Ghz Athlon XP system with 64MB accelerated AGP graphics card for about $420.
If you want to stay current, you have to keep upgrading video game consoles as well as PCs. But the advantage of the PC is that you can use it for things other than games. Today's fast PC is tomorrow's slow PC, but today's cutting-edge game console system is tomorrow's paperweight.
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Date: 2002-05-12 16:38 (UTC)"And, even if I did, upgrading the PC would cost almost as much as a GameCube anyway--a video card that doesn't suck is over $100, and a Celeron 433 processor is, by game standards, at the trailing edge of technology."
If you buy at a regular computer store, maybe. Buy at a hole-in-the-wall PC reseller and you'd be amazed what you can get. last week, i built myself a new 1.2Ghz Athlon XP system with 64MB accelerated AGP graphics card for about $420.
If you want to stay current, you have to keep upgrading video game consoles as well as PCs. But the advantage of the PC is that you can use it for things other than games. Today's fast PC is tomorrow's slow PC, but today's cutting-edge game console system is tomorrow's paperweight.