the world is a very different place than it was 5 years ago
when my 500MHZ P3 combined with a TNT2 Riva used to be the fastest computer on the market
nowadays there is a very wide range of high end computers; a P4 3.0 and Radeon 9800 is high end, but there are computers more than twice as fast as that
but to most internet users a Celeron 2.8 and Radeon 9200 is pretty high end to them