Crazy idea

[blurobot]

Here's something crazy:

- External graphics cards already works well in windows but os x lack driver support for these (according to other threads on mac rumors)
- New Mac Pro announced with thunderbolt and (possibly) open the door for external thunderbolt graphics card expansion
- New Mac Pro opens the door to the graphics card expansion market + drivers dev since now there is a clear go to market for these companies later this year
- MBA could then possibly use thunderbolt 1 (slightly slower then 2 but still good enough) to run an external gpu which allows for 3x 27" thunderbolt screen and awesome gaming

Am I crazy? am I the only one caring about this?

Work is buying me a fully loaded 11" mba. How awesome would it be to be able to connect it to my 3 thunderbolt screens sitting in my basement connected to my (blah) PC?

Possible or not?

 

[Menge]

Here's something crazy:

- External graphics cards already works well in windows but os x lack driver support for these (according to other threads on mac rumors)
- New Mac Pro announced with thunderbolt and (possibly) open the door for external thunderbolt graphics card expansion
- New Mac Pro opens the door to the graphics card expansion market + drivers dev since now there is a clear go to market for these companies later this year
- MBA could then possibly use thunderbolt 1 (slightly slower then 2 but still good enough) to run an external gpu which allows for 3x 27" thunderbolt screen and awesome gaming

Am I crazy? am I the only one caring about this?

Work is buying me a fully loaded 11" mba. How awesome would it be to be able to connect it to my 3 thunderbolt screens sitting in my basement connected to my (blah) PC?

Possible or not?

Not going to happen with the current state of Thunderbolt:
16x PCI-express 3.0 bandwidth = 15.75GB/s
Thunderbolt 2.0 bandwidth = 5GB/s if using both lanes simultaneously

You CAN run an external video card on Thunderbolt, but it won't necessarily be faster.