Showed a young kid (I think the machine was older than him) an old Gateway G6-300 machine from 1999. Pentium 2 300MHz, 128MB SDRAM, 5GB hdd, Win98 FE, with over 3.5 GB free. I'm more a hardware than software person so the main draw for me was the unknown (to me) Chromatic Research Mpact AGP onboard graphics.

Anyway, his comment made me chuckle: "Wow, looks like everything runs pretty quick!" And he was right, everything loaded instantly. Even IE6, Netscape Communicator, Adobe Acrobat 5, etc