MSI's Notebook Station aims to dethrone ASUS

by Tarinder Sandhu on 1 September 2007, 09:09

Tags: Notebook Station, MSI

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Doing what Taiwanese companies do best and jumping on the bandwagon of a product launched by its competitor, MSI has taken advantage of the opportunities opened up by the new ExpressCard interface integrated on modern laptops.



This shiny box, a little larger than ASUS' XG Station, is capable of housing a regular PCIe graphics card and hooking up to a laptop's ExpressCard slot, to boost the power of small-to-medium-sized laptops' onboard graphics via a discrete board. Power is fed to the Notebook Station (great name, huh?) separately, and, from what we can gather, the unit currently supports up-to AMD's Radeon HD 2600 XT or NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 GT - both of which are decidedly midrange.

MSI representatives stated that the Notebook Station should be available in Q4 but failed to define pricing.


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think all these devices are limited to pciex1, which maens there is actually not a lot of point putting in anything much faster that a 8700 :(

they giveth, and they taketh away…

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I believe ExpressCard is basically a 1x PCIe slot, so that would be the case.