Suppose you are shopping for a personal computer that you plan to use exclusively for email and Web access. Which would be a better use of your limited funds – a faster CPU or a larger hard drive? Why?

What will be an ideal response?

Since sending email and accessing the Web do not require extensive computation, blazing speed is not necessary in a CPU. Most of the time, the CPU will be idle while you are typing an email, or reading a message or Web page. On the other hand, if you are going to be storing a large number of messages and downloading files off the Web, lots of hard drive space might prove useful.