@mian It was USB 2.0 at the time, which only has theoretical maximum bandwidth of 480 Mbps and USB doesn't have DMA so it's a huge burden on CPU.
USB is an excellent interface for stuff like mice, keyboards and printers, but I hate that it gets used for things like network or display adapters.
There was Firewire which had mini connector and also had DMA and bandwidth up to 800 Mbps, but it wasn't that common in PC/Windows laptops. From top of my head only Sony had such ports.
@thor