PICTURED: Gigabyte's M1405 with External GPU
The Taipei Game Show is well underway way in Taiwan and something on the show floor has caught our eye: Gigabyte's latest invention, the notebook with external GPU docking station.
A few months back, Gigabyte announced the M1405 that came complete with a docking station that gave you more USB ports and HDMI and DVI, but also tacked on an Nvidia GeForce GT220 with 1GB of discrete to your machine.
CNet's Nicholas Aaron Khoo has spotted the M1405 in Taiwan and managed to get a few sneaky pictures and a video.
Specs for the device go a little something like this:
- 14-inch, 1366 x 768 resolution TFT LED
- Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300
- Up to 4GB memory and 500GB storage
- DVD
- Windows 7
- Intel GMA 4500MHD in addition to the external GeForce GT220
Check out the pictures and video below.
Gigabyte M1405 Spotted
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PCI-e -> short cable -> PCI-e within powered, cooled, external housing.
Plux
Argh! My Sony Vaio has a Gb ethernet card in the docking station and you have to be really careful to undock properly or it screws the machine up quite royally. I can't imagine how badly it would mess up if you didn't undock the graphics subsystem...
Please, can docking stations be just that - not additional hardward that doesn't plug and play properly!
Great idea, the additional power draw only exists when docked.
Even if the system is a little delicate when it comes to undocking, it has it's uses. External GPU for gaming, then disconnect and switch to onboard graphics for everything else. I assume this would be good for power saving. You could then have a high end gaming laptop without the miserable battery life (well, it wouldn't be perfect, a high end CPU would obviously still reduce battery life). Personally, I'm not a fan of the docking idea.
Of course, even beter than this would be a more up to date Hybrid SLI/Hybrid Crossfire system. Something that works with higher end cards and not just mid range cards like it is now.