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GPU switching is old, but not with the GPU in a separate location that can be physically detached....
by scholia 11y ago
GPU switching is old, but not with the GPU in a separate location that can be physically detached....
- cma 11y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOPKd-YBX_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOPKd-YBX_s
- binarycrusader 11y agoThat doesn't count and you know it; that's an external PCI express device, isn't actually part of the product itself. Microsoft's statement is accurate when talking about a single product.
- scholia 11y agoSee comments just below. You've been able to use external graphics cards with Windows for ages, and it was a feature of ThinkPad docks back in 2007 or so, if not before.
- binarycrusader 11y agoAnd you're still missing the point. Microsoft's claim was about a single, integrated product. So let me simplify: 1) ThinkPad docks are an *optional accessory* that are not an *integrated* part of the product. 2) the top part of the Surface Book doesn't have USB or display ports. You can't buy it without the bottom part. 3) Windows 10 is the first version of Windows to support the necessary, seamless multiadapter support they needed to allow seamless transitioning between the integrated GPU and the discrete GPU Other products have had bits and pieces of almost everything in the Surace Book (none of them had the changes present in Windows 10, obviously); what Microsoft presented is the first fully-integrated representation of that technology today, that I am personally aware of. If you can show another laptop, that out of the box, in its base, has a GPU, and a detachable screen, I'm sure we'd all like to see it. Microsoft's claims are very specific. Microsoft had some very specific, contextual qualifications to their statement. Since we're being pedantic, I though it was important to note the subtle distinctions.
- scholia 11y agoEr.. I'm not arguing with you. I understand it perfectly well. Please see my other comments in the thread....
- ygra 11y agoI remember ThinkPad docking stations that could have a discrete GPU in the dock.
- scholia 11y agoWell remembered! But in that case, the external graphics card was used to drive a separate external monitor, not the ThinkPad's LCD.