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It wasn't the interface by: Anonymous on 8/14/2009
PCI Express x1 is AGP x1? What? AGP was unidirectional, PCI-E is bidirectional i.e. x1 is 250MB up and 250MB down at the same time. AGP always had a shoddy upload speed that was in 60-70MB/s range.
What killed XGstation and many others was not the speed but lack of Windows drivers - Windows XP worked but Windows Vista refused to work.
Been there, done that by: Anonymous on 8/12/2009
This has been done a few times before. It was always scuppered by the slow speed of the interface.
e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XG_Station
What a great bullshit. by: Anonymous on 8/12/2009
Connected over ExpressCard means a connection like PCI Express x1 or AGP x1. This cost the graphhic card more than 50% of its performance - for better (DX11) cards more.

Maybe its a solution, if you have an integrated graphic chip inside your notebook. But dont expect good performance in 3D-games.
RE: Great idea by: Theo Valich on 8/11/2009
Well, the manufacturer informed us that they're sending the sample in, and you can be sure we'll test it in multiple notebooks, from HP tablet PC with GeForce 6150 to a Mac Book Pro running Bootcamp.

If all goes well, I see no reason why this would not take off... the manufacturer has to push it, though. We all saw what happened if you don't push the design - ATI's XGP is a just the latest example in the closet of not-supported-not-succeeded ideas.

Ed.
great idea by: Anonymous on 8/11/2009

this seems like an great idea!!!

This way i can "plug" a powerfull video card on my HP Dv2699 to do the work of the 8400GS GPU on my laptop, instead of buying a new laptop because of the weak GPU...

I just hope that this concept gets the backup it deserves from ATI and Nvidia...
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