Computex still floods the internet with news of future products, this one comes from a back room MSI filled with new technology. The people at HotHardware entered, saw and reported.
"The idea behind Luxium is pretty simple, it is essentially an enclosure that houses an external PCI Express x16 slot and is connected to your PC through an external PCI Express interface (ExpressCard in case of notebooks). As you may have guessed, Luxium�s value proposition is to bring high end desktop graphics capabilities to computers without [it]."

There is a couple of things MSI must be cautious about for this to be a good solution:
1- It's cost must be acceptable when compared to how many upgrades the user will be able to perform. Of course, it's not up to MSI to decide when PCI Express is replaced or if it will be backwards compatible trough all of it's revisions. What they can do is adjust the price according to the length of it's usefulness.

2- They ought to give the card enough bandwidth. The company has already had trouble getting the GeForce 8800GTX to work. Even if they solve that, what kind of guarantee is there that the next generation of PCI Express cards won't have that same problem?

Actually, both points have to do with the added cost of this box to the graphics card itself. True, if nothing else, it's a way of getting the ultimate 3D performance out of a laptop, disregarding price, but those that don't care about anything else will still buy the desktop PC and (if) the mobile one.

Later this year, when it's released, you will have the opportunity to merge the mobile and the desktop worlds. Hopefully.

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