Some factors are more memory, bigger hard disks and brawnier processors - but the most important is screen technology.

A big hard disk is mandatory, since these programs can be as greedy for space as the images they manipulate.

The drawback was that often-tiny bars had to make room for a large case with dozens of the big disks.

Even so, like a turtle trying to get off a road in the middle of traffic, the big disk kept surging forward on full sublight.

"Just how long do you think it will take to make your big disk, son?"

All the storage appears as a single big disk.

If you're the type who needs a big attic, because you can't seem to throw things away, get a big hard disk.

A shadow fell over me, blotting out Beta's big yellow disk.

If your system uses 3.5-inch disks, you can trade in the bigger disks for them.

Once that would have been a big hard disk all by itself.