Right I do see the price differance on the notebook drives but I was also comparing that to the fact that it had a built in power supply. There is another company that makes a better unit than Xenarc anyway. A company called TRC and they were at SEMA. Right now the technology is so new that companies are having trouble making this work out right because everyone is in a hurry to get it out first. After MIS's showing at SEMA you can bet that there will be bigger companies coming out with this unit at cheaper rates. Fact is if you want small and you want it now your going to have to pay for it. Talked to Xenarc and TRC and they are still planning on marketing these but newer units are going to be improved all the time.

BTW I don't know if you know this or not but Ford in conjunction with Visteon came out with thier own "ICES" back in 99. It was not quite the same but from what I heard ford put it out with some of the higher end stuff.