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Emrtr4

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Feb 6, 2006
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The Asus XG Station is an external graphics solution for laptops that plugs into laptops PCI E slot and then can be used to power an external display. It will be shipping in the next month for about $600 and will come with a Asus 7900GS (although engadget reported that it is easily upgradable to any PCI E card, however the 8800 cards will not work because they are too long for the casing).

My question is, would it make sense for someone with a MBP to purchase this solution if they want to game (in windows) and they want to use their MBP to do it. Of course a MBP has dedicated graphics, so would this be a big enough improvement?
 
Right now, I'm guessing gaming on the MBP really isn't that much of a problem and very few games present a problem. I have a friend who was a laptop with a AMD 1.60GHZ with an ATi X1300 and he doesn't have trouble running new games, so I can imagine the MBP plays stuff ok at the moment.

In the future something like this might be worthwhile, but in the meantime its probably not worth it.
 
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