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    Fujitsu AMILO External Graphics Demonstrated

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Charles P. Jefferies, Mar 19, 2009.

  1. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Charles P. Jefferies, Mar 19, 2009
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    That's a rather convienient little thing isn't it? Been waiting for something like this for quite a bit now.
     
    jkemnitz23, Mar 19, 2009
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    WOW finallly :eek:

    anyone know what is the name of that song?
     
    elijahRW, Mar 19, 2009
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    any word on the new ati cards in xgp in this laptop or another?
     
    CuriousN, Mar 19, 2009
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    I think somebody asked the same thing before (not same video but same song), it's kinda out of a Sonic game series, isn't it?
     
    lunateck, Mar 20, 2009
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    I think these things very shortly will have changeable video cards. Now that would be pretty sick.
     
    Michael.K, Mar 20, 2009
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    The Youtube vid has a pop-up ad for the song...Storm by Alexander Perls.
     
    Phinagle, Mar 20, 2009
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    Very exciting, anyone know when these things are supposed to go retail and what the launch price will be?
     
    ashura, Mar 20, 2009
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    So what type of interface does it use? It says PCIe 2.0 but I dont think normal laptops have that on the out side. Maybe they could use usb 3.0.
     
    Clutch, Mar 20, 2009
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    I recall it as a PCIe2.0 x4 (or x8, I don't remember) and it only works on AMD platform. the bandwidth of usb3.0 is still low compare to PCIe. 1 usb3.0 =~ 400MB/s, 4x PCIe2.0 =~ 4x500MB/s (from wiki)
     
    lunateck, Mar 21, 2009
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    :FACEPALM:

    It has been out for several months (graphicbooster + SA3650).. Check the Fijutsu Siemens part of the forum.
     
    Kirov Class, Mar 21, 2009
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    Heh, whoops, sorry. I did a quick google shopping and amazon search for "Fujitsu AMILO" and nothing came up so I assumed they hadn't hit retail. I'll check out the subforum.
     
    ashura, Mar 21, 2009
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    IMO it is really weird, that Fujitsu is practically not marketing its innovative monopol in having an external GPU, that actually is relatively fast, due to the PCI-E 2.0 x8 interface.

    I knew about the notebook for at least half year, but I always struggled to find news or information about it.
     
    xedi, Mar 22, 2009
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    This looks pretty cool,I wonder if you can use it in crossfire with another card?
     
    IKAS V, Mar 23, 2009
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