Rui Maciel posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:12:09 +0100 as excerpted:
There is always the option to use an external HD to store your media.
But that ruins the experience, as it's yet another piece of stuff to keep
track of and potentially lose while traveling -- or leave it at home and
forget the idea of having your entire music library at your fingertips
when you suddenly get a hankerin' for that album you haven't listened to
in two years!
There's something to be said for actually having the whole thing with
you, in one piece, without having to track however many different USB
sticks or external hard drives, and without having to pay the equivalent
of a new netbook at least, every year, for mobile broadband! (OTOH, at
some point the prices have to drop and the caps increase to where it's
reasonable to consider dropping the fixed broadband service, at which
point the additional fee for mobile broadband doesn't look so expensive.)