Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Ooh I forgot about eSata. How does that stack up in cost/speed/availability on the new macbook?

My current 1TB Buffalo HD is both USB2 and FW. Doesn't allow you to connect it to both a mac and a windows box though :-)

eSata is as fast as having an internal hard drive. it holds the same bandwidth as your internal SATA. by far the fastest. You'd have to get an express card SATA port, but if you were streaming video / music for editing and you FW buss was overloaded, then this is the best option.