It's not exactly high end if you aren't keeping it up to date now is it?
Again, depends on how you're defining "high-end." A $2000 computer that's updated every five years is going to offer performance that would definitely qualify as high-end, given how slowly games are advancing (due in part to console cycles), and spending $400-500 per year (depending on the number of games purchased and how many sales were taken advantage of) on entertainment is not inconceivable even in a lower income bracket, if that's all you spend. Spending $3-4000 a year on top-of-the-line parts, however, is much less affordable.
Basically, it's the difference between "high-end" in terms of practical application and "high-end" in terms of e-peen stroking. The former is surprisingly affordable. The latter isn't, by the very nature of defining your self-worth based on how much money you've spent.
so in other words, if you define "high end" as "not high end" then the definition is different?
thank you for that marvelous insight, you pedantic child. ---
Is this going to be one of those times when you pretend not to have a plan until the last moment? And then turn out to really not have one?