Gigabyte M2432 laptop with GeForce GT 440 graphics card dock hands-on

Gigabyte’s no stranger within the field of dockable computing devices, and its M2432 laptop shown off at Computex is one more example proving just this. Let’s take care of the real machine first: here we’ve a Core i5-2410M (2.3GHz to two.9GHz) rig packing a 14-inch 1,366 x 768 LCD, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 500GB 7200rpm hard disk, and a DVD burner that may be swapped with a secondary battery. You’ll also find 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI-out, VGA-out, 1.3 megapixel webcam, an eSATA/USB 2.0 combo port, and two USB 3.0 ports in this Windows 7 Home Premium laptop. All of this weigh 1.8kg (3.97lbs).

There is a little bit of a surprise within the expansion dock: by laying the M2432 on top of it, not just are you adding six extra USB 2.0 ports plus DVI-out and another HDMI-out, but you’re also kicking up its graphics power with the built-in desktop-class NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 with 1GB video RAM. So essentially, the dock doubles as an external graphics card. No word on prices or availability just yet, so stay tuned.

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