Village Instruments CEO Promises Graphics Card Enclosure for Thunderbolt

[giovanbattista]

Village Instruments CEO Hubert Chen wrote an open letter to Facebook last week, attempting to gague customer interest in an external PCI Express graphics card enclosure for Thunderbolt. He said that the company would begin development on such a device if 50 people left a comment indicating interest - as of right now, the letter has well over 300 comments, and Chen confirmed in a follow-up note that development on the peripheral would begin soon.

Village Instruments currently makes the ViDock, a graphics enclosure that uses the ExpressCard interface - the new Thunderbolt ViDock will probably be similar in construction to the current model. Performance of the new Thunderbolt device should improve considerably, since Thunderbolt gives devices 10 Gb/s of bandwidth to work with, while ExpressCard devices can only use about a quarter of that.

The Thunderbolt ViDock, when it's released, will be a boon to thin-and-light laptop owners who want good battery life and weight while they're on the road, but good graphics performance when they're at their desks.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4569/v...or-thunderbolt

[blengyo]

ad oggi, qualcuno ha testimonianze da riportare sull'utilizzo di queste ViDock? Sarebbe interessante aprire un thread ufficiale..

Mi sembra essere davvero una valida soluzione in tanti scenari.
Io ad esempio ho macbook air che uso lavoro per lavoro, e per performance (i5 e 8 gb di ram) e autonomia è davvero perfetto ed insostituibile; sta di fatto che la sera atteccherei volentieri alla thunderbolt questa scheda video esterna per farmi un giro su wow o diablo senza che il pc decolli e diventi bollente, o 2 spari a dettagli anche medi su qualche fps..