A more powerful high-end four-processor system will not be available until the second half of 1990, industry analysts said.

A high-end system would ship with about 90,000 blocks of disk space available.

"It will still be quite some time before the high-end systems we have today can be replaced," he said.

The price of larger, more powerful subs can easily climb into the thousands if you have a high-end system.

It is a subtlety he describes as a 2 percent difference on a high-end system.

One place Compaq can look for simplicity is in its high-end corporate systems.

The system requirements were steep for the time, so you had to have a relatively high-end system to run it well.

It subsequently saw the most use in high-end systems.

To put it bluntly: this is the best way to play if you have a high-end system.

Most new 3D games need a fairly high-end system with a dedicated video card in order to run.