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"i.e. if a genie offered to increase the capacity of your TP hard drive by 400MB, or to give you a PCMCIA SCSI card and a 1GB SCSI drive, which would you pick? Most people would opt for the latter. Just because they're not technically comparable doesn't mean we can't compare them when justifying a purchase. New technology is irrelevant if the manufacturing and design costs make it too expensive. That's not to say there aren't people who *need* the extra 400MB, just that I think IBM priced the drive ridiculously high, especially since their wholesale price suggests they could've priced it much lower." well of coufrse if an external drive is suitable this is a FAR better way to go, and of course you may very well not want to stop at what is now a rather small size (1 gig), so if this is the solution for you, go for it, since it is, as you point out, cheap, but for me, disk storage that I can't easily use on a plane does not exist.