Quote Originally Posted by iddqd View Post


(he means that you'll be able to use an external video card)

Although you'll probably need more links than just one. Like 3 of them in parallel have the same bandwidth as 16x PCIe 1.X

E: although they claim they can get it up to 100 gbps, which I guess is actually faster than PCIe 2.0 and only slightly slower than PCIe 3.0. If I were a laptop manufacturer, I'd start pushing USB3 as hard as I can, while completely ignoring LightPeak though... wouldn't want people to simply buy a desktop video card rather than a whole new laptop.
I remember someone doing a test with high-end GPUs a year or two back and dropping down to I think an x4 PCIe link yielded something like 80% of the performance. I'd be fine with 80% of a GTX 580 linked to my MBP