Graphic Accelerator for Laptops

[frackh]

Being new to Skytrak and interested in TGC, I've been eyeballing a new PC build since I last updated my desktop back in 2010. Big thing that's held me back so far is that want portability, like a laptop. But I don't want sink a load of money into a gaming laptop that I can't upgrade it's components at a later date. Specifically for the purpose of gaming.
After some further digging, I found this interesting bit of tech that would somewhat make future proofing a little easier for laptops. No idea what the price is but AnandTech indicated "not cheap at all".

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10920/asus-rog-xg-station-2-egfx-enclosure-with-thunderbolt-3-launched

[Justin General]

I haven't tested one but this is the direction I plan on going myself. I am a fan of having just one mobile computer for everything and love the idea of just being able to dock it to a graphics accelerator/hub like this for gaming.

Here are a couple links on the tech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uraNu-H9S6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OggThG13Bmg

These are available now for certain mobile devices, but very soon it will be available to any mobile device with a Thunderbolt 3 port.

[MarkyMark]

This is exactly how i run TGC/Skytrak i have a razer blade stealth with Razer Core.

[Justin General]

Hmmm. Good review here. It looks like there is quite a bit of graphics performance degradation when going through thunderbolt.

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

I may just have to build a dedicated gaming pc specific for the sim room.