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Re:Why I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro by Fnoord on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @09:27AM (#13270645)
> You want to be running the "guest" since that's where all your work is (just having access to the disk isn't really enough, you want to run your apps/settings/etc). I think we may see a move towards docks with graphics cards, but the CPU and RAM probably want to stay on the guest computer.

Like the Razer Core, with USB-C. Yep, I can see this happening, but also remote gaming where you rent the workstation and just get a thin client which only has to be able to download and see the 'movie'.

Gaming-wise, I can also see use cases where you want to get additional CPU power.

Re:Why I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro by lmm on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @11:52AM (#13271727)
> Like the Razer Core, with USB-C.

Yeah, I was thinking of my Surface Book (with the graphics card in the base).

> Yep, I can see this happening, but also remote gaming where you rent the workstation and just get a thin client which only has to be able to download and see the 'movie'.

I suspect the inherent latency will always argue against remote gaming - especially for the kind of games where you most want extra computing power.

Re:Why I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro by Fnoord on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:50PM (#13280015)
> Yeah, I was thinking of my Surface Book (with the graphics card in the base).

Excellent example. In theory it could also work with devices like the newest MBPs.

> I suspect the inherent latency will always argue against remote gaming - especially for the kind of games where you most want extra computing power.

Not necessarily. FPS and perhaps LoL, sure. RPG such as WoW, not really.

Not sure about AR/VR.

If one doesn't have/want a PC workstation with a strong graphics card, and one does have a laptop, why not just a Razer Core or akin device?

Until we can just have those in the device itself. But that is gonna take a while!