User blog comment:Bovell/Lots of new Battlefield 3 details via Twitter, DreamHack festival, PSM3, and interview/@comment-98.83.128.17-20110626193719/@comment-1439572-20110627083450

No, they're talking about launching it on super-ultra-high graphics settings on a big widescreen monitor.

If you don't give a shit about graphics (like everyone should), then you can just get a moderate modern PC and play on something like "medium" or even adjust settings as you like. Don't forget that huge monitor resolutions take up processing power of the GPU, that's why running on 800x600 is faster than 1024x768. Don't give up, anon.