Hello i need someone to replie to me what is this at my laptop ?

>>58123551
That's a laptop

>>58123551
There are several notable parts visible in the photo. What are you referring to?

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Hello i need someone to replie to me what is this at my car ?

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Port for a docking station, it's a little pad-thing with a monitor and keyboard attached to it you can clip your laptop onto and use it as a desktop.

>>58123575

Also forgot to mention - some older thinkpad docking stations had a PCI-e port where you could put a regular desktop GPU. Why the fuck are they not making laptops with an option like that no more? WHY?!

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>>58123607
But they are?

>>58123607
Actually eGPUs are getting more popular.

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>>58123682
>>58123758

Yeah, but those aren't really docking stations, just a cumbersome thing you hack together that requires you to slip an expresscard with fat cables in and out every time.

By comparison, take a look at the Thinkpad advanced dock - it has a separate GPU compartment (albeit a small one by today's standards). You just clip the laptop on and it's good to go.

>>58124448
Because there is no big market for them. 90% of all laptop users are idiots and just use anything a salesman tells them to.

>>58124448
Because we don't need to. Any card that could fit in there could just as easily be made to be a mobile chip and inserted directly into the laptop itself.

>>58123551
while we're talking laptops, expresscard ssd or no? and can you boot from a setup like that or do you have to keep mbr/uefi on the hdd to point to the ssd?

>>58123607

It's an old concept really. Dell's C Dock II for their old Latitude CPi/CPx,C600/610 laptops had a pair of PCI slots in it. I had a CPx years ago and used it as a DAW like this with an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card in one of the PCI slots and a Matrox dual-head G450 PCI card in the other slot for dual displays.

>>58125081
Wrong.

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>>58124448
Couldnt it be possible now with usb 3.0 and 3.1 standard to connect an EGPU with 2 or 4 usb3 cables for higher speed? Or it would be slower than the expresscard slot?

>>58125452
using the usb 3.1 slots for powering the gpu too maybe

>>58125452
You need a PCI lane to add in an external GPU. Thunderbolt 3.0 has a PCI lane. A regular non-Thunderbolt USB-C port won't work.

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>>58125467
I'm not sure how much power 3.1 pushes but any GPU that could be powered by it wouldn't be much more powerful than the iGPU the laptop already has.

>>58125056

I'd say it has more to do with the lack of standards when it comes to docking station ports. Which is a darn shame because an expresscard can't really match the performance of a real PCI-e x16 slot.

>>58123574
Kek

>>58123551
You mean the socket? It's for a dock.

>>58125452
>that setup