That may be. But there's also no point in building something at all if your target audience's hardware won't run it or if it'll slow those machines to a crawl.

That may be. But there's also no point in building something at all if your target audience's hardware won't run it or if it'll slow those machines to a crawl. There's a decent chance that the OP has no power over the pursestrings that would need to be opened for a hardware upgrade.