Notebook game changer notebook/tablet

[Protomanx13]

One thing I hate about laptop is that I would spend $800-$1000 for a decent laptop and after a few year, you have no choice but to purchase new laptop due to its incapable of upgrading. These few months, 2 manufacturers so far have announced something call amplifier dock. You will have a laptop on the go as usual, but there will be a separate dock that you can purchase that has its own psu and gpu. When you connect to the dock, it will run the gpu on the external dock without any configuration assuming the driver is already installed. And the big seller is these gpu is upgradable. 

 

So far, we have Alienware's Graphic Amplifier, but this runs at PCI-E 4x which can be a bottleneck in a few year

 

And the show stealer for CES 2015 is MSI GS30 Shadow with Gaming Dock, which runs at PCI-E 16X. However, it is price at $2000 USD, which is not a small number

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrw8f0s9Mrg

 

However, if you are one of those people that want a desktop and a laptop, the is much cheaper than buying both. And you only need to spend few hundred dollars to upgrade the video card instead of throwing your whole laptop out. 

Edited January 12, 2015 by Protomanx13

[Garychios]

Video is gone, but more importantly, i would like to see how it would handle a new bus architecture.