Yes, at that price I would jump on it. It looks great... I've got a soundblaster extigy wich is the same idea. USB sucks for audio, but laptop sound cards suck even more for audio. The extigy has onboard dolby 5.1 decoding and 5.1 output, so it might have a few more features. I would expect the Onkyo would be higher quality than soundblaster circuit city level stuff. It's definitly worth the $70... You've got me considering one, and I don't even know what I'd do with it.

Matthew