I bought my machine last year for Christmas. A gift for the family.
It was a mid-range system at that time, though I did not know that
the 256k memory limit would make it low-end so quickly. I added a 3d
card at about six months, not knowing that the standard was moving
ahead so fast. With the knowledge I now have, I may have scraped up a
bit more and bought higher end, but it was not then a good economic
move.

I will be adding enough memory in a few weeks to bring my system up
to it's 256k max. I ordered sol in the summer, with the expectation
that the 128k minimum would be in place when released. I found that
my max would now be the new minimum.

As is the system is nominally playable. With the new memory and
possibly a new graphics card (fortunately the cost of a gforce 2 has
dropped to an easily reachable level) the machine will serve. I
expect Sony/V will make improvements in the game to keep lower end
players viable for some time.

Now I must plan to upgrade hardware and catch up, perhaps pull ahead
of the curve a bit so I am not always catching up.

Unfortunately, I am not able to scrape up the $4k bucks for a real
kick-ass system like I see in the magazines. I will probably see what
a new tower with lots of memory, a gforce 3 and a good sized hard
drive will cost me, and begin saving in hopes of getting it online
before this system gets too old to play.

For those of us on the lower end, we must hope Sony/V wants our bucks
enough to keep us alive a bit longer.

Barto Proudfoot