Id take the quality you saw in the 2.0 screenshots with a grain of salt....the game is only 15% optimized for hardware atm, and who knpws exactly what settings were set for the client they were using.....there s a lot of factors to consider. What you saw in the screenshots was not finished product, and i can assure that even the alphas graphics will be inferior to the beta and even the official launch client.

Imo the screenshots were released to show us certain things about the game and potentially, what it may look like. Im positive that the devs or even yoshi-p disnt anticipate people to criticize the quality of the pre alpha screenshots they posted.

On that note, im sure hardware requirements for the 2.0 client wont differ too much from what 1.0's is. But only time will tell.