>> >> Does he need all the music on the laptop all the time - if
>> it
>> >> won't fit on a laptop (and anything HD based will be quite spacious these
>> days)
>> >> he can always have an external USB drive.
>>
>> He does. His laptop is where purchased/ripped music goes and to which his I-Pod is
>> synched. He needs that number of GB 'overhead' before calculating usual need.
But it doesn't need to be on a hard drive inside the laptop. It could then be used, in any other machine if he wanted as well, using something like media monkey.
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