I'm seriously considering a laptop for a future computer build. While it's not going to beat the most overclocked rig it's starting to look "reasonable" depending how you look at it.
The one thing that seems to be going rather slowly though - how far along is light peak? Googling gives lots of results from 2010 and the middle of last year but beyond that not so much.
Do we have laptops that come with it? Has the external graphics card box available for expresscard equipped laptops seen an upgrade to match?
If I could take a laptop with a "decent" graphics card for on the road (like my current mobility 5870) with an SSD in it for decent drive performance (even bigger upgrade on a laptop than a desktop) and have my raid array, decent soundcard and a much bigger graphics card in an external box with a simple cable to hook to the laptop I can see that being where i'd go next.
I'd be more than happy with a "slightly less performance than in a desktop" performance from a card too as a tradeoff so long as the occasional problems the above solution has (jerkiness when loading textures mainly) were ironed out.
Having a seperate laptop and desktop is of course all well and good too. Being able to keep a single machine so all settings/bookmarks/etc are in one place without faffing would be rather nice though. It's a laptop on the road or the base unit for my desktop PC when docked.
The one thing that seems to be going rather slowly though - how far along is light peak? Googling gives lots of results from 2010 and the middle of last year but beyond that not so much.
Do we have laptops that come with it? Has the external graphics card box available for expresscard equipped laptops seen an upgrade to match?
If I could take a laptop with a "decent" graphics card for on the road (like my current mobility 5870) with an SSD in it for decent drive performance (even bigger upgrade on a laptop than a desktop) and have my raid array, decent soundcard and a much bigger graphics card in an external box with a simple cable to hook to the laptop I can see that being where i'd go next.
I'd be more than happy with a "slightly less performance than in a desktop" performance from a card too as a tradeoff so long as the occasional problems the above solution has (jerkiness when loading textures mainly) were ironed out.
Having a seperate laptop and desktop is of course all well and good too. Being able to keep a single machine so all settings/bookmarks/etc are in one place without faffing would be rather nice though. It's a laptop on the road or the base unit for my desktop PC when docked.
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