State of the art computer "Used Mainly for Freecell"

The top of the range, state of the art computer owned by Sarah Spigot spends
most of its time idle, it was revealed recently.  In fact, the most the system
gets exercised is to play the occasional game of Freecell.

The Compaq system, based on an Intel processor and running Windows 2000 spends
a large part of its life switched off.  When switched on, its 833Mhz Pentium
III processor spends 99% of the time doing nothing.   Its most strenuous
application, Freecell, occupies only a negligible fraction of the 256Mb of
memory.  The AGP 3D graphics card, which is capable of rendering 800,000
Gouraud shaded triangles a second, is used to display a largely static
arrangement of 52 cards on an imaginary, plain green table.  The 40Gb hard
drive, which could store the complete works of shakespeare 15,000 times over,
currently holds three essays and a letter to Sarah's boyfriend. 

Only five years ago, the processing and storage power of Spigot's computer was
undreamed of, and scientists attempting to perform atomic simulations or
discover new drugs to tackle incurable diseases would have given any amount of
money to run their programs on a machine such as Sarah's.  Instead, it is used
to play a card game which could quite adequately be carried out using just a
deck of cards.  However, Spigot is adamant that she will make greater use of
the machine in future, just as soon as she finds out how to "get the internet
on it so I can check my email."