Sounds good... laptop audio production is a kind of Holy Grail chock full of pitfalls due to to relatively slow development of high-speed low-latency external audio interfaces. Firewire and USB 2.0 will likely change all that and make things easier. There is a new bus-powered Firewire audio/midi interface from M-Audio (Firewire 410) that is due out in June which looks very lust-worthy.