http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/ Engadget Comments for Gigabyte M1405 spied hauling around its external GPU http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://bit.ly/giga-laptop-for-you]]>Feb 12th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
But in reality, people have been able to hook up a desktop graphics card through a regular laptop's express-card slot or even the mini pci-e slot (sometimes both for x2) and get really good performance from the setup.

Google: Vidock 2 which costs $200 w/o card, or if your really ballsy, Google DIY Vidock which costs from $77 to $180 depending on how ballsy you are.]]>Feb 8th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/You could always try a diy vidock...
Go Here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=418851

These guys figured out how to do it for half the price (A little more and you can do PCI-E x2), all you really need is a laptop made in the past few years, this part, a video card, a power supply, and the willingness to try it out.]]>Feb 8th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
Wow very interesting

My Toshiba A300 does have an express card slot, and this could be a great way to get crysis to run better! hehe

I dont see anyone else using a Toshiba A300, but Ill look into it more. How did I not know about this before :O]]>Feb 8th 2010 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
While I agree with you for the most part, you also need to consider the fact that an SU7300 would severely bottleneck a GTX285 or HD5850. A GT240 or GTS250 would have been a lot better, though.]]>Feb 8th 2010 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Epic spelling fail]]>Feb 8th 2010 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
No, epic grammar fail. I think he meant to say "they, minus the whale, have gone the integrated GT2X0m or GT3XXm route". I guess the whale isn't interested in this technology.]]>Feb 8th 2010 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 12th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
Its only cancerous due to the small plutonium reactor's poor shielding.]]>Feb 8th 2010 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Presumably they think some people might rather buy this to have both a practical notebook and a gaming machine in 1, over buying a small, light and underpowered netbook for on the road plus a dedictated gaming system at home. Alienware laptops aren't exactly known for their portability, battery life or price.

But I do have to agree that it's a pretty stupid idea]]>Feb 8th 2010 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Are you serious? I'm looking at the M11x right now but I wouldn't even consider thinking about taking that monster with me on a train or something. But then again, I never got the point of a portable game system anyway (except for handhelds of course).

1st post here by the way, which is why I missed the reply buttons :-/]]>Feb 8th 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/I like my laptop to be small, light, to run cool, and to last long on a battery, while still packing enough CPU power and peripherals to be able to run everything *except* games. Beefing up a laptop so it can play games is silly (or at least that's what I think), at home you're better off with a normal PC or a console, and on the road I don't play any games that need a big fat GPU and an ugly case to accomodate all the noisy fans inside.

Laptop for games = only downsides, if you ask me. You'll get an expensive system that compares badly to much cheaper laptops for common tasks, compares badly to (again much cheaper) desktop PC's for gaming, and will probably be outdated for many games within a year or 2 anyway.]]>Feb 8th 2010 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
Its so small that people were even mistakenly calling it a netbook, but it has the performance of much larger laptops. ]]>Feb 8th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
Thinkpad T series have integrated, discrete, or hybrid GPUs and docks with user replaceable external graphics cards. Latest T series support 2 external monitors, and probably another 2 on dock.]]>Feb 8th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
Its quite disappointing to see the hardware producers show little interest in this.]]>Feb 8th 2010 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
Of course this particular one is a joke. That is a huge box for a 220. It has 'kludge' written all over it.]]>Feb 8th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
I think you forgot: price, upgrades (at least I can show my parents how to do most things in a desktop without getting a glazed-over their eyes look), form factor that doesn't produce as much waste assuming you plan on keeping it for upgrades, cooling ability, amongst others. ]]>Feb 8th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/No, I am not forgetting about those things. I just don't put as much value on those as much as I do on the compactness and power efficiency of a laptop. I know that you can build a quiet, efficient desktop. I've build a few of those for HTPCs.

But, about the only parts in a laptop that you can not expand/upgrade are the CPU and the graphics. If you can now upgrade the graphics, then I think that is pretty good. I've been building PC for over 20 years, and most of the time when I have been ready for a CPU upgrade, most of the rest of the system had to be upgraded as well anyway. If not because of a cpu socket change, then just because the other components had also become obsolete.]]>Feb 8th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/
How about an upgradeable dock.]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Feb 8th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/gigabyte-m1405-spied-hauling-around-its-external-gpu/Not really, if they are using the same bridge thats used for express card and mini-pcie, which is PCI-E1, thats probably the BEST they can do, any more would be wasteful.]]>Feb 8th 2010 12:56PM