Originally Posted By: AndrewT
I'm thinking along the lines of using a swappable hard drive, or a dedicated partition on the existing HD, or booting from a USB HD.


Good point. Any views on how the USB interface on your generic laptop would be up to dealing with all the traffic (songs coming off USB HD, and then going back out to D/A)? I know that on paper there is more than enough bandwidth, but...

And just from an ideological point of view, I would prefer open source software...