GPD has been selling handheld gaming PCs since 2016. And in that time, the company has offered models in various shapes and sizes. But one thing they’ve all had in common? They ship with integrated graphics, because there’s just not enough room for a discrete GPU in a system that small. Most recent models have […]
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GPD roadmap includes 3 new mini-laptops & GPU dock (GPD P4 Max, Pocket 4, Win Mini and GPD G1 dock)
GPD’s last few products have been handheld gaming PCs including the GPD Win 4 and GPD Win Max 2. But the company also makes handhelds and mini-laptops designed for general purpose usage rather than just gaming, and it looks like there could be several new models on the way. Details about the company’s plans for […]
MINISFORUM is building a mini PC with discrete graphics and AMD Ryzen 5000
MINISFORUM says it’s working on a small form-factor desktop computer with an AMD B550 chipset and support for up to an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X processor. Measuring 166.5 x 158 x 67mm (6.56″ x 6.22″ x 2.64″), the computer won’t take up much space on a desk… but there’s also not room under the hood […]
Gigabyte launches a water-cooled Thunderbolt 3 graphics dock with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Graphics docks promise the best of both worlds for laptop users — you can have a thin, light, and portable notebook with long battery life for use on the go, but you can connect a desktop-class graphics card for gaming or graphics work when you’re back at home base. Over the past few years a […]
Gigabyte’s new external graphics dock houses a GeForce RTX 2070 GPU
Adding a high-end graphics card to a desktop PC isn’t usually all that hard. But things get trickier when you want to add desktop-class graphics to a laptop or mini-desktop (which may have no room for a discrete GPU). Enter graphics docks, which allow you to use a desktop graphics card with any computer… as […]
Razer Blade thin & light gaming laptop gets a 2018 refresh
Gaming hardware company Razer makes pretty good laptops, as I discovered when I reviewed the Razer Blade Stealth last month. But that model is a bit of an anomaly for the company: it’s got everything you want in a gaming laptop… except for a discrete graphics card that lets you play the latest games at […]
Now you can use an external graphics dock with a Mac
Appls has rolled out an updated version of macOS and, among other things, it adds support for external graphics cards. That means you should be able to connect a graphics dock to just about any Mac with a Thunderbolt 3 port. The most obvious reason to do that is so you can use a desktop-class […]
Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock with NVIDIA GTX 1050 graphics coming soon for $399
Lenovo is the latest company to launch an external graphics dock that lets you add a desktop-class graphics card to your laptop or PC just by plugging it into a Thunderbolt 3 port. But the new Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock is a bit more svelte than most of the products in this category that […]
Asus XG Station Pro external graphics dock coming soon for $329
Asus is introducing a new Thunderbolt 3 external graphics dock that lets you use a desktop graphics card with your PC when you need it and unplug it when you don’t. It’s a way to turn just about any laptop with a Thunderbolt 3 port into a gaming machine or to add big graphics power […]
Zotac introduces AMP Box line of external graphics docks (Thunderbolt 3)
Laptops are getting thinner, lighter, and more energy efficient… which is great if you want decent performance and long battery life on the go. But if you want to do some heavy duty gaming, video editing, or other tasks that require a desktop-class graphics card you might need, well, a desktop. Or you could opt […]