GOOGLE EARTH is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while...

OMG!! I thought Google Maps Satellite was awesome. Google Earth is freaking 100x better that Google maps. You have you're own WORLD MAP in front of you. You can just click paris and find every lodging, every restaurant, every bank, every detail of the location. I just did some test runs and its fast and SUPER QUICK.

The only beef is that they recommend a high p4 with 512 mb of ram (i recommend that amount too because the programs takes up 125mb of your ram) with a good video card at 32mb min.

Luckily for me, my 3 year old computer is still running strong at 1.7 ghz p4, 1Gb of ram and 64mb Ati Radeon card.