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Lucid Demos Thunderbolt-based External Graphics for Ultrabooks

Would external gaming capability make an ultrabook purchase interesting for you?

  • Yes

    Votes: 16 34.0%
  • No

    Votes: 14 29.8%
  • Depends on the price

    Votes: 17 36.2%

  • Total voters
    47
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But you still need to take into account the fact that VirtuMVP is having problems with lots of games so untill they improve that there is not going to be a lot of interested in that.
 
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But you still need to take into account the fact that VirtuMVP is having problems with lots of games so untill they improve that there is not going to be a lot of interested in that.

they had, when they tried to make it able to combine every ATI GPU with every NVIDIA GPU.
Limitations, like making this driver set ONLY for the GPU Model in the enclosure, in combination with, lets say, only APUs and Intel HD Graphics... that will make the amount of possible configurations so small, that Lucid will have far less problems implementing it in a satisfying way ;)
 
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