text: Hard disk - This is large-capacity permanent storage used to hold information such as programs and documents.\n\nCentral processing unit (CPU) - The microprocessor "brain" of the computer system is called the central processing unit. Everything that a computer does is overseen by the CPU.\n\n1.1ghz still will not tell you the full extent of the power behind the computer.  Things like celeron, pentium, pentium 4, pentium M, all help understand how powerful a computer is.\n\n60 gb is easy to  put in simple terms.  \n1 gb = 1024 mb\n1 CD = 700 mb\n1 DVD = 8.5 gb\n\nso that 60 gb can hold \n7 dvds\nor \n87 CDs\nor \n42,666 floppy disks