I was just wondering if you had thought about saving yourself about $325 buy just putting a Maxtor 40gig inside your mac?
Another option would be to buy a Pyro 1394 Drive Enclosure and put a 40g maxtor in it.
The enclosure is about $160 and the 40gig drive is about $250.
That's only $410 for an external 40gig firewire drive.
Just my $.02
later - blizaine