- Synthmilk
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Well, personally as a PC gamer I view my PC as my entertainment system, so as apposed to getting cable or some big-ass TV screen that is "HD" but looks like -blam!-, I put that money down on my computer.
Think about that. I rarely watch TV, so as apposed to spending big bucks on a nice TV, I spend it on a nice PC. How much do you watch TV? How much do you spend on TV compared to your PC? You see, being a computer gamer is in part simply using a PC as an entertainment device, and is also in part a hobby, so I see it as perfectly acceptable that a uber gaming machine may cost me 4 grand, when I don't spend money on TV's, DVD players, TiVo, or a "real" hobby, such as golfing, woodcrafting, or spying on my neighbors kids, which is an expensive thing to do, you know the cost of a decent nigh-vision add-on to a high powered telescope?
So in my mind, $220 on an upgrade you need to do anyway just so you can continue entertaining yourself and keep your hobby alive, is nothing.
Oh, and you will be sorely disappointed if you get Home Basic, go for Ultimate, if you can't afford that, you have more important things to do in life than play computer games ;)