MSI took advantage of the Games Convention, which is currently taking place in Leipzig, to unveil its Notebook Station which takes after Asus’ XG Station, or more specifically uses the concept of a 3D external card for laptops.
While this docking station for graphic cards is (unlike the competition) capable of accommodating a double slot graphic card in its PCI-E x16 port, MSI currently recommends the Radeon HD 2600 and GeForce 8600GT, which frankly aren’t overachievers in terms of performances. These cards remain limited, however, because unfortunately it’s still the ExpressCard which is used for the PC connection and not a real
PCI-Express x4 or x16 external port. You may recall the native PCI Express lane on ExpressCard is only of the x1 type.
