I learned that computers are never good enough (fast enough, have enough RAM, etc.) for whatever game you currently wish to play on them.
Well, I already knew this, but I was reminded yesterday.
My son wishes to play World of Warcraft. I agreed that if he did decently on his 4th quarter report card, I would buy it and let him earn the monthly fees. We'll see how THAT works. But the family computer doesn't like it and I can't get the auto uploader to work, so I stayed up till friggin' 4:30 last night (this morning?) trying to manually download and install the umptyzillion patches it requires. Still not done.