Graphics Card Dreams for Laptop Gamers!

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I finally found the answer to my gaming dilemma. I can game from home, but at work I only have my laptop... which only has an ATI 200M card in it. ASUS has answered the problem with the ASUS XG Station... Now I just need an extra $500.

[link=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128401/article.html] PC World review[/link]

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"The orange/grey toned docking station, dubbed the XG Station, connects into the ExpressCard slot found on most new notebooks. The full-sized graphics card inside the XG Station then powers an external monitor, which becomes the primary display. The right side of the XG Station also features two USB 2.0 ports, a Dolby 5.1 audio-output jack, and a microphone input (perfect for gaming headsets).

ASUS said it expects to start shipping the XG Station around May for around $600 (possibly including a 3-year warranty) and most likely bundled with an ASUS EN7900GS board (our number 3 ranked graphics card at press time). The company was tight-lipped when asked if it would offer the unit without the bundled board, but in my brief time with a pre-production unit here at CES 2007, I did notice that you can easily swap in your own card."