MSI Intros New Gaming Laptop And Dock For Discrete GPU

[jasonelmore]

LOL usb. 500 Mbps = 63 MB per second in a perfect world. Probably closer to 50 MB per second. Needs Thunderbolt.

 

[alextheblue]

LOL usb. 500 Mbps = 63 MB per second in a perfect world. Probably closer to 50 MB per second. Needs Thunderbolt.

Well you're actually an order of magnitude off. It's 5Gbps, or 5000 Mbps. Furthermore, USB 3.1 doubles the rate to 10 Gbps, and reduces overhead. With that being said, it's still far from ideal for graphics. Even the latest Thunderbolt standard is only 20 Gbps aggregate. Terrible.

Then you're got talk of optical Thunderbolt connections (it should have been optical from the start, codename Light Peak). But from what I've heard they're not supplying power on first gen optical designs. That means everything you connect to it has to be self-powered. How hard is it to incorporate a couple of copper wires and a couple of pins into the same cable? You're still replacing the vast bulk of the copper, and you make it into an actual USB competitor.

Anyway, for external graphics what we need is a freaking purpose-designed external PCIe standard interface. Not thunderbolt, not other random proprietary connectors. You can integrate USB with it, or leave it seperate. Two cables is no big deal.

 

[Nuckles_56]

Or if you have a thunderbolt port and too much money you can do this instead...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7987/running-an-nvidia-gtx-780-ti-over-thunderbolt-2

 

[Innocent_Bystander]

Ty for finally moving away from 1080p displays in gaming laptops.

I have a 15.6" laptop with a 1080P screen and I can barely read the f*cking thing. I'd be much happier with a 1600x900 screen.

 

[fkr]

i never really liked gaming outside of my house anyway. I like my gaming mouse and my mechanical keyboard and my nice low friction gaming mouse pad and my 5.1 audio , i would not carry this stuff around.

so this is a nice laptop with a nice 1440p screen (everything looks better on my 1440p). laptops are so close to your face anyway that 1440p seems ideal to me since at the desktop if you get to far away text can get small on a 27" (wish i had a 32").

so we have a great little laptop for productivity then we come home plug this into my 1440p monitor and that black box and we are off to great gaming.

this seems like a great idea to me.