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Back in the day when PCs were first moving into households, they came in big, clunky desktop form factor machines, with a beige colour, built like a brick. Later on, for some inexplicable reason, the world decided to move to tower configurations - more stuff could be stuffed inside, yes, but I considered them to be impractical and always in the way. These days, people just buy laptops and be done with it. This has a few disadvantages, one of them being the lack of graphical grunt in many laptops, combined with the inability to upgrade the graphics hardware. AMD believes it has a solution.
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2006-02-04
Indeed. I think the implementation (the new graphic port) is going to be a bit of an issue as far as adoption is concerned. But I guess existing solutions simply don't have the bandwidth required for 'high end' video cards.
I've read about similar solutions using the Express Card port as the connector. The system was basically a little hub that you plug your full on desktop pci express card into.
The one I read about was the Asus XG but it doesn't look like they have released it at this point. Their website says Q2 2007 so looks like they are running a tad late.