Are you out of your mind? Any experienced member of this forum will tell you to avoid Maxtor drives like the plague. Western Digital and Seagate make much better hard drives.
Boot Camp does not run windows in emulation. It allows you to install and natively run windows on a separate partition. Parallels desktop runs windows in virtualization simultaneously with
OS X. While this is not 100% efficient, it is better than emulation software such as virtual pc. The only...
The Honda Element and Honda CR-V share the same 4 cylinder DOHC i-VTEC engine. The Element gets 22/25 mpg, while the CR-V gets 23/30 mpg. Aerodynamics have a considerable effect on gas mileage.
The Honda Element is a rolling block. This explains it's lacking gas efficiency. You need to look at cars such as the accord/civic or camry/corolla which are aerodynamic.
What kind of internet connection will you be using? If for some reason you are still using 56k dialup, then you will need a modem. If you are using a broadband connection like cable or dsl then all you need is a network card or a motherboard with integrated ethernet.