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I'm going to college next year and I'd like a laptop/notebook/netbook/etc. You get the picture. I'd also like for my external to be compatible with it but I have no idea whatsoever if you can add an eSATA port to a netbook. In a perfect world I'd have a little netbook with an internal 1TB HD so I could use it in the car and other places without having to have the external plugged into an outlet.

In the cheapest possible way - keeping in mind I already have a 1TB external that I'd prefer to work with - what do you guys suggest I do? I guess I could settle for a $249 (on Apple's site) iPod classic with 160GB but that doesn't solve my laptop problem and I have more than 160GB of music so I'd have to pick and choose.

Oh and when I was thinking about making this thread I had a ton of stuff I wanted to mention but now I feel like I left out a bunch of stuff and it won't make sense haha

My external has never moved, but oddly enough I've discovered that it causes my daily bluescreen and freezing. When it's not on, no problems. When I have a file currently in use (for example, I lock computer with a song playing), no problems. When it is on and not in use, problems every single time.

Anywho, I didn't think of the risk. I would hate to lose all my music. I have a lot of time to think about this, but I'd really like to be able to use my laptop with music away from home without having to use a smaller HD to store music. The 500GB HD you mentioned seems like a perfect fit for what I want, any idea what price range I can expect?

2 Seconds on newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007605%20600030600&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB

^^ those would be internals that you would put into your laptop. Here's external 2.5" drives that run on USB power, sorted with best rating first:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007601%20600003446%20600003490%20600003341&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=RATING&PageSize=20

There is no way I am going to believe that you listen to all 160 gb or more of your music. I would say for the iPod, just put what you listen to on it. I mean you must have music that you no longer listen to just wasting space on your hard drive. Even if you do like it all, it is easy to pick the music that you listen to most recently and then just swap it out when you are feeling something different.

@Blue: Only some is in FLAC and I have an mp3 version as well to add to my iPod.

If you iPod then just convert everything to ALAC. Same as FLAC but it's Apple's version.

Rockbox.....

Aye but something tells me that AJ has a touch...