Conan O’Brien interviewed Ajay Bhatt, the co-creator of the USB Port (universal serial bus) who works for Intel, and pointed out that Ajay was played by an actor in the Intel rock star commercial that ran on television.

As is the late night tradition, Ajay appeared in his own comedy parody of the Intel ad, which I thought was better.

On a side note, we like Ajay’s approach that easier is better when it comes to computing.

Now if computer manufacturers would only put quad eSATA ports next to the quad USB ports we’d be in heaven.

ASUS has announced two new laptops today: The 14.1-inch N80V and the 15.4-inch N50V. Both laptops have the option of T9400 / P8600 / P7350 Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs, up to 4GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GPU with 512MB of VRAM. The N80V offers up to 320GB in hard drive space while the N50V ascends up to 500GB. The N80V includes a WXGA display and the N50V offers WXGA / WXGA+ / WSXGA+ options. Each laptop also offers eSata, HDMI and a selection of USB ports. No word on price or availability as of yet.

The LG S210 is tiny, not as small as a netbook, but certainly close. Yet, it’s also fully featured. It offers a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and an impressive 4GB of RAM. The S210 also goes above in beyond in several areas. It features an ExpressCard slot, dual eSATA/USB ports and HDMI-out. Not bad for a 2.2 pound lightweight with a 12-inch display.

Now that your whistle is sufficiently whetted, here’s the bad news. No release date or price has been announced yet. Time to play the waiting game. No whammies!

This is nit-picking for a lovely device that provides 5TB of storage in a relatively compact form, but why did Lacie call it the "Biggest S2S"? What happens when they release a bigger one? Anyways, here are the specs:

• Standard 5TB storage, scalable to 20TB (via links with other units)
• Full RAID support
• 3Gb/sec eSATA interface
• eSATA-eSATA direct connection
• 200MB/sec burst rate
• Hot-swappable disks

The basic model with PCI-X is $3,699, which is a bit but reasonable for that amount of storage. HD video editors are probably already drowning in their own drool over this monster.