My desire to power up a laptop with an external graphics card began in 2015, when I set out on a quest to get back into PC gaming—a beloved pastime I’d neglected since childhood. But the only PC I had ...

I enjoy playing PC games at reasonable resolutions and quality settings without setting my legs or desk on fire, which is why I typically don’t even think about a laptop’s gaming capabilities when I’m ...

It used to be that desktop computers reigned king in the world of powerful computing, and to some extent, they still do. But laptops are pretty powerful these days, and in our experience, a lot of ...

External graphics cards (eGPUs) have been around for quite some time, but they have never really managed to go mainstream.

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Dell’s Alienware 13 laptop attaches to powerful external desktop graphics cards, achieving what many laptop makers have been chasing for years. Starting at $999, the Dell laptop has a proprietary ...

AMD is hoping to capitalize on the external graphics card phenomenon with its latest Radeon driver update. Radeon Software 16.3 includes a new technology called AMD XConnect that allows for a seamless ...

NVIDIA has done a pretty god job of demonstrating that low power netbooks and notebooks can actually be pretty effective machines for watching HD video and playing games if you add a decent graphics ...

Fujitsu is set to launch an external graphics card solution dubbed the “AMILO GraphicBooster” sometime in the “next few weeks.” Unfortunately, this information was leaked from a presentation, so there ...

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I wish I were at CES, as I'm a big fan of free continental breakfasts and complimentary bathrobes. I'd love to cruise the showroom floor checking out gadgets in a fresh pair of Bellagio slippers. My ...