Re:Desktop Applications (Score 1)

As far as the "use of an external hard drive" goes...the poster who talked about using external storage for video editing was using ESATA via PC-card, not USB or Firewire. ESATA is just as good as an internal drive, it's connected at exactly the same speed. Of course, you aren't going to find enough PC-card slots in a laptop to install 4x ESATA ports to replicate your RAID, but the ESATA option does solve the bandwidth issue you mention, assuming a single 3.5" 10,000RPM drive is fast enough and large enough for what you're doing.