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Asustek XG Station external graphics card
Talk about a mysterious looking device, Asus is reportedly going to show this off at CES next week, anyone heard anything about this?
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20070102PR202.html
This seems to be a sound card and a dual monitor output.
I cant remember the product but its equivelent to a matrox something.
Not as exciting as you think but still very small. Its express card and it would sell very well.
Consider how many people on nbr ask for something like this. There is a demand.
It doesnt put a new gpu in your computer...
The article states the XG Station has a "discrete graphics chip[s]" which seems to imply that there is a graphics card/GPU in there - at least that's the way I interpret what they're saying.
Stamar, I think the Matrox product you're referring to might be the DualHead2Go(?) which splits the RGB out from a computer/notebook into two outputs allowing you to have up to three displays.
However, IBM/Lenovo has docking stations with PCI slots that accept video cards. IF the XG Station does have a video card, depending on what GPU they've put in there, this could be a big deal.
Imagine having a thin and light notebook with integrated graphics for work on the road and a docking station with a dedicated video card when at your desk. Hopefully this is more like the ThinkPad dock rather than the DualHead2Go.
Do any of the ASUS resellers here have more info?
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Re: Asustek XG Station external graphics card
Oooh looks nice. Hope ASUS uses a decent GPU, say at least an nVidia Go7600