I'm writing this because it seems that the industry just isn't making it accessible to the masses, so we need to help them along a little. External Monitor optional, can power the internal laptop screen. Upgrading to play the latest games in two years' time can be done by upgrading the graphics card only - not the entire setup.Powerful external graphics card to play games on when docked that can beat top gaming laptops.Small and light 12" Windows 8.1 tablet for portability.So my highly portable, small, light, tablet machine just bested a 17" behemoth "gaming laptop" that is about 3x heavier? and this is how it looks on my desk: This setup is approaching 2 years old now so if we compare this to a top 17" gaming laptop purchasable at the same period we come up with 3dMark2011 scores of around 5,900 mark (Alienware M17x R4, using a Nvidia GTX 680M GPU. To resolve this performance issue I have an external Nvidia 670GTX desktop card that connects to the tablet like a docking station so that when plugged in the very same little 12" tablet provides a 3dMark2011 score of: However I also enjoy gaming and sadly the tablet's integrated Intel HD4000 graphics only provide a 3dMark2011 score of: I move around quite a lot for my job, so I use a 12" ultraportable Windows 8.1 tablet PC.
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