[Francois]

"How Much Storage Space Do I Need?
It’s tempting to go insane with storage space, getting oodles of gigabytes “just in case”. However you’ll only ever use so much. I’d advise you to look at your CD collection. How many CD’s do you have? Multiply that by 0.04 and you’ll get roughly the storage space needed to store them in MP3 form. Not much now, is it?"

You haven't met me now have you?

I have 300gb+ music and 800gb+ movies, and that collection is rapidly growing. I download somewhere around 100gb a month, and my internet isn't that fast. If I where to upgrade my internet, it will be more like 200-300gb.

On another note, I have to say that this is a good guide. If you are only going to be watching a couple of movies, listen to some music, browse the web, and use a word processor, then there is no reason to go out and buy that shiny $3000 laptop that the store clerk just INSISTED that you NEED after rambling on and on in constant confusing jargon. You don't need 6 cores each running at 4.5ghz to watch a youtube clip. Your standard Celeron system will do fine. If, on the other hand, you want to go out and play the latest games on the highest graphics settings, then you will do good to make sure that you get the right system. Oh, and when it comes to the processor, for most games, you do not need 4 or 6 cores. In fact, those games cannot use those 4 cores. Most games can only use one or two of those cores. So, just because the i7 hexa core 1.8ghz is three times the price of the i3 dual core 3.0ghz, doesn't mean it will perform better. On the contrary, you would rather have the cheaper i3 running at 3.0ghz. Choosing the right processor becomes a big issue when wanting a gamin laptop, because i7's are infinitely more expensive to dual cores and i3's, and normally have a much lower ghz speed per core.