For a college kid paying his own way through medical school and for his own computer, every penny saved is a penny and a half that doesn't have to be paid back. I will have to be content reading a book while I wait the extra few seconds for the CPU to bring the information up. Additionally, speed is a greater necessity for people planning to use such things as graphics. For someone that generally will hover around the word processor, speed is not as big a deal. So, when picking a computer, a reasonable amount of speed will be provided and anything else is merely a luxury.
Storage is another main component to look at when purchasing a computer.
The difficulty in looking at storage lies in trying to figure out what all those numbers mean. There's two different values for storage under every computer on Best Buy's home page, and to top it off storage is measured in kilobytes, gigabytes, and megabytes, which makes it even more difficult to comprehend. The actual memory of the computer is measured in megabytes, while the hard drive storage is in gigabytes. The approach to take in choosing how much storage to purchase may be a little different than for speed. Unlike speed in which great amounts of it are mainly a luxury, one can never have enough storage.