I've always played games, lately it was mostly Warcraft (a lot) until I recently quit. I paid a lot of money on hardware, always wanting the best performance. Now I hardly play games at all and use the machine purely for browsing the web, and a bit of VB programming.
For most people a cheap web browser is sufficient, pretty much including me. I kinda feel I've lost a bit of a hobby though, it bothers me that I have no need for the latest and fastest stuff.