Oh wow. Okay, if your computer can't run the EW libraries then you DEFINITELY should not be looking at VSL. Pay close attention to how they phrased that, it's in advertising speak, observe:
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...for newcomers to the world of Vienna Instruments, offering a useful cross-section of Vienna Symphonic Library's over one million samples.
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So yes, it's for newcomers, but to the world of VIENNA SYMPHONIC LIBRARY, not sampling in general, see what I mean? Even if your computer can run this package on its own, you'll still need the added reverb plugins and a sequencer capable of pulling it all together, so you need to keep that in mind as well - just because you can run the samples themselves, doesn't necessarily mean you can make practical use of them.
And yes, you can upgrade to get more ensembles, but then you're looking at a LOT more harddrive space and even more performance hits, so you have to be very careful.
In your case, if you can't run EW's libraries (are you sure that not even Silver will run?) then you should probably be looking at GPO after all.
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