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external graphic card
is there such thing as an external graphic card?? so i can buy a laptop with integrated graphic card to save battery and when i go home i can plug in the external for gamming.
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nope, usb, expresscard(pci-e), firewire etc are all too slow for this purpose
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Yes... the Asus XG... but its not out yet to the public.. should be out this year though....
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Yes... the Asus XG... but its not out yet to the public.. should be out this year though....
lol I checked out that Asus XG, and wow what a weird idea.
$600 for a huge external station and it requires an external monitor,, obviously not something you can carry with you. for that price might as well purchase a desktop for gaming.
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And another one is the MSI ....... somebody fill in the blank.. i cant remember the name..
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It's not huge. And it would be quite a nice addition to any laptop with integrated graphics, although I wouldn't recommended it for the highest settings in games past 2003. And why purchase a gaming desktop? Damn you desktop kiddies. (Or are they the desktop people, while we are the laptop kiddies? :confused:)
If you get the XG Station, you can hook it up to your notebook, get an external monitor, and turn your notebook into a desktop. Kinda like that Dell XPS "laptop" which folds out in three different ways.
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Double post. Sue me.
Here's the MSI Luxium: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/10/m...ution-spotted/
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itll still only be useful for old games, unfortunately.
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Aye. But ATI's Lasso is doing something else: dual USB2.0 ports. Not sure how effective it'll be, seing as mass transfer of USB isn't that reliable. Woulda been better if it was 1xExpressCard, 2xUSB2.0 and 1xFireWire. That would be a lot faster than some crappy ExpressCard connector.
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yeah there should definitely be an external gpu that plugs into the expresscard 34, 1 usb port, 1 firewire 400, AND one firewire 800. also it should plug in to the ethernet port. that would not be hideous at all. oh yeah it should also plug into bluetooth 2.0 and 802.11n wirelessly.
would that give it enough close to enough bandwidth?