Now or later, the question is about the "near future". (For the SP3 or SP4/SP5).
Docking station idea
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Now or later, the question is about the "near future". (For the SP3 or SP4/SP5).
Is it possible for the Surface Team to create this in the future? Yes, but highly unlikely as the industry is moving towards Wireless Docking and Cloud-offloading for more Compute, I do believe pervasive computing via a phablet class device is our future, which will be dockable but I doubt that more compute will be built into the dock, it will be used for productivity.
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It would be quite easily possible, add a i7-4930MX CPU into the Tablet (might get 1-2mm thicker) and an external GPU via PCI-E then put the CPU into "Low Power" mode when mobile and deactivate 2 cores, and use a Dock with external Cooling capabilities to use full power. 16gb RAM should be enough for nowadays.
I see no reason why not. A decade ago I had options in my laptops NVidia control panel to set a scale of battery life -> performance for the gpu when plugged in/unplugged
And it's not like cpu's don't throttle back when not being used etc.
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That was the Optimus Project, driver and firmware support was abysmal and the project was abandoned, many of those devices couldn't be updated to Windows 7 without disabling the NVIDIA GPU.
That's something different. I'm talking NVIDIA ti4200 days. In the NVIDIA control panel there was a slider to adjust between performance and battery life.
Sorry, I thought you were talking about the dual GPU laptops that had an Intel GMA for when on battery and the NVIDIA GPU when on mains....
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