Newegg.com has a HITACHI 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $100.99 with free 3 day shipping.
Newegg also has 2GB (2 x 1GB) of Kingston 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) laptop ram for $39.99 plus $4.99 for 3 day shipping.
I can't keep up with the latest in memory and computer advances but I think Intel's current top of the line microprocessor for consumers is the Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor QX9775, a quad core that runs at 3.2GHz and uses a 1600MHz front side bus.
My first home computer computer had 64 KB of memory and a microprocessor that ran at 1 MHz. This isn't exact but to give you some idea of what that means - today's home computers can process information 300 thousand times faster, and have about 8 million times the memory, compared to that computer from 25 years ago.
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