> You could decode a 320kbps mp3 on an 83mhz Pentium I.

Only if doing nothing else at the same time!

I was there; I had a 486 that could decode 96kbps mp3.

But, like the P1, if you tried to do anything else while decoding mp3s, the entire computer, including the sound output, would stutter.

I'm not defending 30GB of uncompressed audio (obviously they could have compressed it a little, at least), but to claim that a P1@80MHz could indeed decode mp3s@320kbps is a bit of a stretch.

It could do so only if you weren't doing anything else at the time.

How about 30-40 of them at the same time, while sending off video to be rendered by the GPU, tracking as many entities positions 60x per second and more?