[quote name='Gothic Walrus']I can't quote it because the old OTT is locked and I'm too lazy to manually edit it, but I need a new computer too, for almost the same reasons you do.
My laptop's already gone through a battery and a hard drive (and Dell won't be paying to replace it for much longer if anything else breaks), and the fact that I haven't played Bioshock or Portal yet is still bothering me. A new computer would fix that, and allow for Spore, provided it actually manages to live up to even part of the hype it's built up.[/QUOTE]
There's almost no way Spore can live up to the hype. People have been buzzing about it for years. That and SC2 are so hyped it's scary.
But ya, I have a Mac Powerbook (because I do video editing on it), but it's starting to fall apart after 3 years, and for only about $800, you can get a well-above-system-specs system now. I needed a laptop for travel/work, but I really want a desktop again once I have an apartment that can fit one.