Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards

J. Dzhugashvili writes "If you read Slashdot, odds are you already know about WiGig and the 7Gbps wireless networking it promises. The people at Atheros and Wilocity are now working on an interesting application for the spec: wireless PCI Express. In a nutshell, wPCIe enables a PCI Express switch with local and remote components linked by a 60GHz connection. The first applications, which will start sampling next year, will let you connect your laptop to a base station with all kinds of storage controllers, networking controllers, and yes, an external graphics processor. wPCIe works transparently to the operating system, which only sees additional devices connected over PCI Express. And as icing on the cake, wPCie controllers will let you connect to standard Wi-Fi networks, too."

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Re:Great Breakthrough, Limited Performance

[geekoid]

It wasn't an asshole statemnt. Based on YOUR post, you didnt know the technical details of PCIe.

And you made up your mind about the technology YOU said you didn't know.

" I know bus speeds, versions, bandwidth and what the fuckin' connector looks like."
well you didn't say that in your post now, did you?

Many games, if not most, don't need it to run at 'full blast'

It's in no way arrogant to point out that, based on your post, you didn't know about it but still made up your mind.
You are being arrogant in making the assumption every knows you and know what you know.