aarmstr2

ferrarimanf355

Calhoun

The express card standard supports bus speeds up to 25 percent faster than agp8x, so it can do reasonably well.

PCI Express supports speeds higher than agp8x, but I'm pretty sure express card is just a single PCI Express lane with a USB 2.0 connector. It will be the equivalent of putting your nice x16 card in an x1 slot.

I'm still anxious to see benchmarks-- it may be useful even with the huge bottleneck.

raygundan

furiku

maxp

Not if it doesn't have a PC card slot. Not even running Bootcamp.

Purple Dave

Shachihoko

Does it work with GNU/Linux?

lazyron

ddrmacintosh

As a side note, did anyone else notice that the LCD readout looks like its heavily based on the countdown timers used variously throughout the Battlestar Galactica show?

darksteel1989

domin4nt

mrdietsoda

Put simply, because it's not a completely internal solution. If they could come up with a way (no, I don't think this is possible) to pull off a high-end graphics solution that consists _solely_ of a standard-sized PC/E card, then it'll really take off. Until then, you'll be stuck with having to either lug around a bunch of extra peripherals, or gimp your system for travel. I upgraded my laptop before my desktop because my old janky bought-it-used-for-$300 laptop had gotten to the point where adjusting the screen angle would cause it to turn off. No shutdown procedure or anything, just suddenly the screen goes black. A year later, I upgraded my desktop, and most of what my laptop sees in terms of use is internet (might as well make sure that only one of the two computers gets regularly congested with spyware) and travel. Granted, that means it sees more use than my desktop, but I use that for anything that requires more graphics power (games, LDraw) or a bigger screen (watching DVDs at home).

What would make more sense at this point would be if they could start making graphics cards that come in a very standardized external-access module, not unlike hard drives. The only problem with that, of course, is that you'd lose even more real-estate on the increasingly more utilized edge surfaces. It'd probably have to be something that's only accessible from the bottom surface, like RAM.

Purple Dave

Kapazza

If they do that, then this is an instant buy for me. I've had three laptops (in reality, two that I really used) and I always hated that, even though I bought them new, they'd always have outdated and lame graphics cards.

ev1l_er1c

aphexacid

aegies

Jay

crobar

drifter13

futurebiblehero

Hoppasaurus

photoboy

supadude5000

ArchAngel080

FairladyZ4U2NV

Karlott

Uh_Oh