You don't have to buy a top-line PC to play games. I just wish Bethesda would give us information. Even if they tell us it'll be a couple months, that's better than "When we get information, we'll tell you."
I tried playing Skyrim on my $700 PC and was told I didn't have enough video memory for the game. You need to go spend 150 bucks on a cheap video card just to play it. Unless you have the required video memory, which won't come included with cheap PCs.
4GB XBox 360 Bundles go for $299. A Dell PC (we're talking the cheapest POS brand you could buy) is $499 AND you can't upgrade the video memory.
So... $299 and you can play it? or pay $499 and realize you can't even run the damn game?
But you get what you pay for. I'd fork out the extra cash just so I could use the console to fix all these damn bugs.