Maybe that second (power) connector is for the guy who has an older laptop with USB 1.0 and is running the device from a pcmcia/usb2 card and needs power from the usb1 port.
Just a thought...

macs come in black too...

not to blunt the edge of your parting shot to cup o' trannies, but if you can run windows on a mac, you can run this drive. Now, let's help LG sell this slender, carbon-neutral, pleasure inducing Bluray/Hd Hybrid Wonderdrive. 

Today, people queued for iphones. Let's take have a minute's silence.