Thanks for bringing up the hard drive issue. However this is one characteristic that I have that many others lack - I don't use a lot of space. Whenever I built my computers I try to use as many free parts as possible. We have a ton of parts, and I'd always reuse the hard drives that we have (along with other various parts). So I'm accustomed to being limited to around 16 GB of disk space . I guess you can say I was "raised" to be space effective, and that this 74 GB will be like moving into a mansion for me. However if I need to, I can always do a raid setup like you suggested.

Also, I will look into that extra stick of ram. Call me old fashioned, but I thought you need to have either 2, 4, or 8 GB of ram to have optimal performance (especially because of the dual core; each core having 1, 2, or 4 to itself). Is this no longer the case?