Upgrade hard drive or buy external drive?

My MacBook has a 100GB hard drive, but because I've got so much music stored on there, I've only got 7.5 GB of free space.
I'm looking for advice in choosing between the following options:
-Upgrade the internal hard drive to the 200GB model. This would cost $300+ to have installed, but is a slightly slowed drive (4200 vs 5400)
-Buy an external hard drive and simply keep my music on that. But I'd have to have it with me everytime I want to access my music.
So is it worth the extra expense of getting a larger internal drive?
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Scott

Why not both?
Ideally, you should have external backup anyway, just in case of a hard drive failure. After having 2 hard drive failures in my MacBook, I'd dare say you'd be a fool not to have external backup.
Make sure to get an external drive with two FireWire 400 ports (for daisy-chaining). Seagate makes good ones, or you could buy a hard drive and an enclosure and make your own, but something tells me you're not the type.
Make a read/write disk image of your internal hard drive with the Disk Utility and save it onto the external drive.
How about you buy the hard drive, and pay me 100 bucks to install it? LOL. You could do it yourself, it's really not that hard. I just did it today, in fact.
Take out the battery, unscrew 3 little phillips screws, take out the panel, grab that white tab to the left, slide it out, move (unscrew) that little metal thing to the new drive (you need one of the fancy little hex thingies to do that) slide the new one in, screw her back up, and boom, you're good to go. Hey, but if you're not comfortable doing it, then don't.
Now, the hard part is getting all your data back on the new internal hard drive all at once. I found out today, you may need a second Mac to do that.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=888330&tstart=0
Okay, so maybe I'm a bit more daring than the average Mac user, but oh well.
Hope that helps.

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