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I think the real issue lies beyond development; and as all good answers, it lies in profit. Why sell a barebones system when they can mark up an already overpriced graphics card and a hunk of aluminum? That's merchantability for ya.

Chris]]>Apr 5th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/
I heard a couple places that it was going to be $600...
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t12396.html
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The real issue is that the ExpressCard is only PCI Express 1x, so even if you do upgrade the card in the future you may already be pretty much capped on performance in many applications by the expresscard bandwidth.]]>Apr 5th 2007 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/Apr 5th 2007 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/Apr 5th 2007 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/...ing/index.html

Tom's Hardware took a look at the performance hit of running reduced PCI-E lanes back in 2004. They found that even a GeForce 6800 saturated a x1 lane. Throwing a 7900GS is overkill.

The rumor is that there's a v2.0 on the way that will support multiple PCI-E lanes. I'm guessing it'll use some sort of proprietary connector, meaning that maybe only Asus laptops will be able to use it. I guess we'll just wait and see. But really, does a gadget fiend know how to anything by wait and dream?]]>Apr 5th 2007 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/Apr 5th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/
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Give me this thing barebones, charge a decent price, and you've got yourself a sale.]]>Apr 5th 2007 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/
Something isnt right with their benchmarks. The difference is huge between game benchmarks and 3D Mark.]]>Apr 6th 2007 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/Apr 6th 2007 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/asusteks-xg-station-ripped-apart/an ExpressCard does only support 1x at 2.5-5.0 Gbps (if your lucky)
whare as a 16x pci express card can use up to 80 Gbps (40 gbps minimum)
which means the gtx8800 is well out of the question, sory for the bad news, i will gladly accept any evidence to the contary, i got some info from this link below.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/tips0456.html?Open
my rason for wanting the xg station was i need to upgrade to the 3.0 shader model apart from that i have a very high spec laptop.
3.6 ht p4, 2gb ram, 100gb hdd,256mb x600 ati 16x,wifi,bluetooth,17" screen, all worthless when you want to play a game that requires SM 3.0
lets just hope that thay come up with a standerd laptop pci xepress card you can upgrade in the future.]]>Jun 28th 2007 4:07PM