AMD held a press event designed primarily to promote the graphics capabilities of its 780G chipset this week, aimed mainly at the mainstream lifestyle media.

HEXUS managed to barge its way in regardless and, as well as interviewing VP of product and platform marketing Leslie Sobon, which we will bring to you shortly, we also spotted this unexpected peripheral.

It's based on an AMD technology codenamed ‘Lasso', and is essentially an external graphics card. AMD wasn't able to give us any details on it as this is a Fujitsu-Siemens (FSC) product, but we first spotted Lasso in early 2007, when we observed it had the capability to house multiple graphics cards.

I'm guessing that the "proprietary connector" is a little more than an ExpressCard, since that's only a PCI-Express by one connection. A 3870 couldn't possibly shine with that kind of meager bandwidth. Meaning that this wonder box isn't going to be upgrading any non Amilo S laptops, but that makes one other thing a possibility: upgrading.

Sure, that'll probably nuke your sexy Fujitsu warranty (you know that warranty's going to be hot, just look at the laptop!) but that doesn't mean it can't or won't be done. I'd be willing to pitch a perfectly good HD 3870 for a sweet little 4000, or whatever's next in the pipe.

Here's the Amilo S product page.