The Government can not ban anything because it is not their property. Steam can, but last I checked they are under no obligation to do anything unless it negatively impacts other players, and not applying the fix negatively effects everyone.
It happens with many games, its up to the OFLC...
Probably, i quote systems for people and build them, but if the figures for processing is justified for the price, then buy it.
BTW how much is this system costing him.
Just dug a lil deeper, its because the i7 processor connects directly to the memory, not the chipset (wtf, why?), and yadda yadda, i7 has DDR3 ram built in, yadda yadda.
So you're right.
But DDR3 RAM has become cheaper apparently.