If you are screwing around with lots of mp3s and Photoshop go ahead and get an external drive. You cannot believe how fast photos suck-up disk space. Also, external drives are faster than laptop drives. Keep an eye open for cheap firewire boxes as well as cheap drives in the 160 to 250 gig range--there are internal drives going for as low as 50¢ a Gig. I got a firewire CD box on sale at OWC for $50 and I should have got two. I swap in and out of it a 160Gig drive a DVD drive and some other drives. What is cool is that it has two firewire plugs, so one goes to the camera and one to the laptop.
Make sure if you get a box that it supports the ultra ata drives.
I don't know about how you and your brother share stuff--but OSX user software can deal with some of that and partitioning can deal with the rest. --
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