Memory or Hard Drive?

I'm about to purchase a MacBook and have enough money to buy the MacBook and either 2GB of Memory or an External Hard Drive.(Both cost the same.)Which should I get? I will of course end up getting both sooner or later.

Neither, get 512 mb of memory and 3rd party it too 2 gbs of memory...I can't express enough how much mac overcharges for Memory. With your extra money you might have enough to upgrade to 80 gb for your hd.

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