The first computer that was mine was a Compaq laptop that had 27 gigs of hard drive space. While I owned that laptop, I also purchased an iPod that had 30 gigs. That was funny, I thought.
Two years ago I acquired a 24" desktop iMac with 500 gigs of hard drive space and lots of other awesome specs. It was quite a deal actually--the university I live near had a bookstore that was trying to get rid of them for the new models, so I got it at like $700 off the regular retail price.
And this past summer I had a stroke of luck. I left it plugged in during a wicked thunderstorm and apparently lightning struck right near my apartment complex. I had just moved in and was too lazy to unpack my surge protector, and of course a power surge occurred and fried the power system.
Luckily I had purchased the AppleCare extended warrantee, so it was covered. They couldn't fix the power system, so they were forced to replace my machine. Turns out, they were no longer making the kind of Mac I originally had. So I got an upgrade~ 4 gigs of memory, 2.66GHZ, Intel Core i5, and 1 terrabyte of hard drive! Not to mention a monster 27" widescreen monitor :3 My only problem with it is it can't handle Blu-Ray, which to me seems silly. I even looked up tests for third-party hardware and software, but it just doesn't come out right.
