@JEmlay: It does seem kinda impractical, unless you have a laptop with really shitty integrated graphics and don't wanna buy a whole new one.

Nintenboy01

I've always wanted to ask:

Do you guys actually proof-read your articles before clicking "post"? I don't keep a written score or anything, but I can usually count 1, sometimes 2 spelling/english mistakes PER ARTICLE, and I'm no english major.

Who knows if that's even bad. Maybe other sites have 20 or 30 per article and you're doing good by comparison.

eriegz

I wonder if you could run this with the fancy new USB 3.0?

admoseremic

These external solutions always fail. They are such a pain.

JEmlay

would this drive the laptops screen at all or only for external displays?

damnelantra™

@Nintenboy01:
I am sure it wouldn't be too hard to modify it.

Or better yet, have them release one where you can put any graphics card you purchase separately in.

Lstormy10

Hmm I'll wait for an HD 4870 version.

Nintenboy01

They should have played Half-Life 2 on the Demo, just to give an idea of games it truly could play.

DannyTMurphy

Magma makes a similar solution for Mac... it's a failed effort though, as it only supplies enough juice for the OLD ATI cards.

[www.magma.com]

But yes, I want to see more products like this. When I'm on the road, I want slim and sleek, and when I'm at home, I want to dock to a beast from hell, but I don't want two damn computers.

ltethe

@admoseremic: It doesn't really matter, it's just sloppiness, that's all.

eriegz

@admoseremic: It's not often grammar anyway, it's spelling mistakes.

Nintenboy01

@admoseremic: I think it matters. Proper grammar and spelling shows the readers that their editors are competent at writing, which is part of their trade.

And yes, at one point it was 'made up,' but so are all the laws that we use in society (not to say that laws are arbitrary, but someone had to first 'enact' the laws.) You really think that we shouldn't have rules for writing? That's how pidgin languages are formed.

jzulli

@eriegz: Who cares? I've never been a big fan of all the made up grammar rules anyways. Why is someone else's opinion of how to write better than anyone else's? Anyways, what does this have to do with an external GPU?

admoseremic

@Lstormy10: Yeah, that'll work. Especially if the price isn't too bad.

USB_Humping_Dog

@Nintenboy01: Like most laptops (I say looking at my macbook shaking my head at it's gma 950). Hope this thing is Mac compatible cause they need it the most.

I won't buy it though, I have my desktop with a 4870 for that!

Toastie

@admoseremic:

"A powerful graphics card and two-USB port that you can have permanently attached to three displays. It look amazing in action."

Jesus, why do you hate 's' so much? That's straight up racialism.

"We will have to wait and see if can say the same about its price."

:( :(

Tell you what, I'll proofread all of Giz's posts for only a buck apiece.

radeon21

@skreenname:
I forgot to say..
I've seen some External GPU things before, but you might as well just build a desktop for how much they cost.

skreenname

I need this.
My Graphics processor is complete crap.
Hopfully this won't cost a ton.

skreenname

@eriegz: you are soo boring btw..

sarwatmj

@sarwatmj: Sorry, I'll try to kick things up a notch or two for next time.

eriegz

@andthepickles: Hahaha, IRONY!

andthepickles

@andthepickles: and*

andthepickles

It would be nice if something like this existed already, as my laptop's GPU is teh suck. Everything else is great, fast processor, 2Gb ram....128mb GPU. But this comp is already 2 years old, and it is about time for me to get a new comp...hopefully I'll just build.

Benjammn

@eriegz: I was thinking the same, somewhat. But yeah, even with proofreading, sometimes people can still miss errors. Especially these guys! The editors at Giz do all of this so often and so well, too! Amd just so we all get our fix and don't go into tech-withdrawal, haha.

S'all good. I'm sure they pick up on their little mistakes and improve continuously, like the rest of us [if not more].

andthepickles

I was just researching this technology last week. In case anyone missed the details, this only drives external displays, only works with one fujitsu laptop, operates at sub-ATX-1 speed, and will likely be in the $350 range. Asus was planning to release a product for any laptop (or at least any with INTEL 965 integrated graphics), but it has entered firmly into the vaporware category.

Future laptops are going to implement a faster PCI-E port that will support this kind of thing more effectively. For now, you could probably buy a discount desktop with that 350 with an upgradable graphic card and be better off.

Still, neat idea.

im2fools

Asus has had something like this available (called the XG Station) for about about a year and a half!

[en.wikipedia.org]

LittleJon

@eriegz: I believe you mean "doing well by comparison."

If you're going to complain about grammar and spelling, try not to make any mistakes yourself.

OfficerMike

Almost, but still a fail. When this works with any laptop, and has an upgradeable GPU, it could be a winner, as some kind of graphics-enhancing port replicator.

Tired_

What game was that?

r34racer01

@r34racer01: Crysis

Mr.DuckSauce

@DannyTMurphy: that's crysis, a very recognizable and gpu heavy game dude

markcheng

@DannyTMurphy: Half life 2 came out in 2004. Crysis was released a year ago. Half life 2 has been played by everybody I suppose, but the fact that Crysis is even running on that laptop is a much bigger deal than running Half Life 2 even with everything maxed out. You may have noticed every post about a supercomputer has the comment "But does it run Crysis".

craig_16

@damnelantra™: Only for external displays I would imagine. The laptop screen is "plugged in" to the notebook GPU.

craig_16

could i hook this up to a net book??!?!?!? im gay

takemetoyourtoaster

@eriegz: If you want to read good English, avoid Jesus' posts - he cannot write standard English and refuses to use spell check software or hire a proofreader or spend time at an ESL class.

It does matter, to those of us who know English, and it is troubling to see someone post such rotten articles. But if you read most comments, sprinkled with "alot" and "noone" and all the homonym confusion, you will see that ol' Jeez has targeted his demographic well - none of them can read or write and moreover, don't care.

Just don't expect Jesus to write well and you won't be disappointed.

JDisnidiet

Its about time. This is a great idea.

RoboChop

Its kinda nice, but its connecting over a xpresscard port, which is only 1x pci-e (plus a usb port). So it really wouldn't have the bandwidth to drive a card much larger than the one already in it.

Knasher

I'll take the NVDIA version. Thank you.

saych

@LittleJon: Matrox has been making the TripleHead2Go and DualHead2Go solutions for about that long as well. Matrox didn't make them white and pretty though so I guess that's something...

Xenocide

@Nintenboy01:

Ok, upgrade. I can certainly see that as a viable option. But how far can it honestly go without also upgrading everything else? CPU, memory, bandwidth???

JEmlay

JDisnidiet seems to have a severe case of penis envy.

Curves

@craig_16: Every post has that damn comment, supercomputer or not

reckless_inoz