"Get the biggest hard drive you can. But to be honest with you, most of what you need can be had in a sub 1GHZ machine."

Depends on what you use your computer for. My almost three-year-old laptop has a 6.4GHZ HD. ...and it had a third of that space taken when I bought it! Windows grows with every new edition. It'd be nice if they left in some of the old DOS tools that they tossed...

Bob