Have you ever wondered how USB have changed the computing world drastically over the last couple of years? I still remember when I first herd about this. It was when I was @ NIBM in 1998. Not that I understood much of it at that time. Actually those days USB devices was kind of rare. But ... see around today ... we have basically almost EVERYTHING coming in USB ... you just plug the damn device to your computer and it works. Right now I have a thumb drive, a mouse, a phone, an external hdd, a mini fridge, a card reader, a camera, a printer and several other stuff on my desk which is just USB plug and play. Recently I went to a digital printing press that prints these large hoardings ... guess what .. that big a** printer is connected to the computer through USB. New car audio setup I put has a built in USB so I can plug a thumb drive directly and listen to MP3s.

I only have3 USB ports in my laptop. With the docking station it's a total of 7, and with the external USB hub I have a total of 15 USB ports. But still there were couple of times which all of them were occupied. CRAZY!!!

I think Universal Serial Bus is one of the most futuristic inventions in terms of connectivity in computers. Hell! still there are many other ports available with our computers and other devices, starting from VGA, HDMI, FireWire, Modem sockets, Network Sockets, PCMCIA ... and the list goes on. I think all these folks should cut the crap and start thinking about moving to USB, may be not everybody due to technical reasons ... but i'm sure most of them can, Because that'll make things easy for us consumers.