Linked by on Fri 6th Jun 2008 12:06 UTC
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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I'm sure that PC vendors have offered this sort of thing in their docks, but it kinda reminds me of a limited version of the old Macintosh Duo Dock. You would have an ultra-light laptop (for the day), but you could have a full desktop PC as soon as you plugged it into a docking station at home. That included two or three standard (for Macs of the day) expansion slots which you could use for video cards, among other things.
And that's why this strikes me as a light version of the Duo Dock. It sounds like something that allows you to plug in one high performance peripheral card. Depending upon the flexibility of the standard, it may only be a video card. That's too restrictive IMHO.
Perhaps a standard high performance expansion bus would be a better idea. Something that would allow you to have a box like the ATI one describe above, or a larger box with hard drives and a few PCI/PCIe expansion slots -- so that you can design your own docking station.