how many additional external attachments do you have connected to

Well, outside of the normal fare of a keyboard, USB mouse, and two little "rinky-dink" speakers, I find great use in my portable USB flash drive. I bought the little guy for about $10 and he's been my best friend ever since. I store photos, papers, and correspondences from friends and family as my email inbox is a teeny tiny 2 megabytes.

Well, I have a printer/scanner/copy machine, but I suppose that's pretty common. Otherwise, I have a 300GB external harddrive. It's extremely helpful, considering my computer's main harddrive is only 40GB. The external harddrive makes it so much easier for me to transfer all of my files anywhere (in case I ever have to do that, for example, if I buy an entirely new computer and have to transfer all the files). I've also noticed my computer has sped up since I've hooked up the external drive, since my current local harddrive is no longer so near its capacity.