Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor

Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by cududa on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:08PM (#17524149)

You are the first person I've ever heard complain about not being able to upgrade the wifi in their laptop.

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by 1996 on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:34PM (#17524407)

Make it 2 then. I want a good chipset with good drivers, that does not crash or has bad performance for weird reasons.

Until last year, I physically removed the default cards in any of my laptops to put a "known good"" Dell ath9k in place. I bought them in bulk, and I may still have some spares

i am now investigsting "modern" alternatives

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by ajoy39 on Sunday July 15, 2018 @02:18PM (#17536326)

Make it three, mostly because the wifi card in my laptop was a nightmare to get working in linux

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by sangnoir on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:27PM (#17525456)

I have an 8-year-old laptop. I'd love to upgrade the wifi to something that can connect to 5GHz APs.

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by justinator on Sunday July 15, 2018 @01:35AM (#17533941)

They do make usb wifi dongles.

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by closetohome on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:15PM (#17526762)

Ooh I actually did this a long time ago! Upgraded the Airport card in my PowerBook.

But, you know, once in 30 years of owning laptops.

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by IOT_Apprentice on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:47PM (#17526557)

Wifi and Bluetooth would both be great to be upgradable.

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