On 12/8/03 5:32 PM, "david" <davidwb at spymac.com> wrote: > Not only > that but having an external drive with a portable computer just isn't a good > idea. Why not? I have a 120 gig external with my 600 mghz iBook and it works great. And when I trade in the iBook, everything will still be sitting there on the external drive, ready for my new one. Plus a bigger internal drive doesn't give you the backup option an external drive does. Brian