40 GB will be lots of room for all your applications, what you want to do is save your data, i.e. captured video, to the external drive. I have two external LaCie firewire drives that I capture my video to but all the applications are on the internal drive. Gerhard On Apr 23, 2005, at 3:26 PM, macminialacool at mac.com wrote: > Gerhard, > > Can I install apps like Final Cut and LiveType on the external while > my OS X is on my internal? If so, you might be right. > > Chris >