If it doesn't run fast enough, I'll just put another 32 Mb of memory in my awesome rig. Then we'll see who has got the better system!!! My mom says I have the fastest computer she's ever seen.
You guys are way off base. A 500 Mhz Celeron is equivalent to a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4. SDRAM was fast when I bought it (still good, I think?). And integrated graphics is super fast because it's built RIGHT ON your motherboard.
I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but here's a funny picture (taken on the day Halo 2 was released)
http://news.com.com/Photo+3+Halo+2%2C+the+adventure+begins/2009-1043_3-5444539-3.html?tag=st.next
HL2 is just over the horizion. Be cheerful.
The GeForce4 MX440 DX7 comes out fastest because it doesn't make the game look very good. Sure it's fast, but you don't want Half-Life 2 looking like Half-Life 1 (look at the screenshots in the review). I suppose that if your computer was really slow, you could just settle for the GeForce4...