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One of the greater innovationes introduced from MSI to Computex 2007 has been Luxium, one graphical card external for notebook, destined to become direct contender of Asus XG Station.
The visitors of the Computex 2007, tenutosi to Taipei from the 5 to the 9 June, have been able to admire also the first prototype of one produced external graphical card from the laboratories of MSI, called Luxium. Draft of one solution external video for notebook, on the print of Asus XG Station, revealed to the CES of Las Vegas, and riproposta lately during the same taiwanese fair.

Like Asus XG Station, in fact, also MSI Luxium could be connected to notebook thanks to slot the ExpressCard, thus allowing to take advantage of all the power of one graphical card Pci Express for desktop. With a design less winning and with I block greater regarding concurrent its, Luxium is not autoalimentata, but that does not represent a disadvantage if it is considered that this device is difficultly transportable.



Even if the employment of slot the ExpressCard could turn out partially limiting for the performances of a graphical card from desktop, because GB/s (against the 4 operates on a single channel with a given speed of 2.5 transfer of GB/s of BUS Pci Express x16), however this solution would concur however to the customers to increase the performances graphical of just the portable computer, guaranteeing I use it of applications and videogames of last generation.

MSI Luxium would allow to transform also the most common one notebook mainstream in one most powerful gamestation mobile, with a considerable saving of expense and the possibility to modernize the GPU in future easy.

Currently we do not have details on the technical characteristics of this device, but from the images published from TGDaily, would seem that Luxium can be equipped of audio escape and 2 doors USB, so as to to equip the own emplacement with a keyboard and a mouse, in the event in which the interfaces of the notebook they were occupied. For hour, they remain disowned the date of release and the cost, but we believe that the information will not be late to arrive an official official notice containing all.


via notebookitalia