Shuttle presents at CeBIT, a prototype external graphics card. As usual, the link is not used a PCI-Express 16x but (in this case) a priori link 1x only, 250 MB / s. The connector used seems owner. The main problem of this type of card is often the same: the requirement to use an external display. in fact, the maps are not planned to send the image on the internal screen of laptop and all is a big dock and needs a monitor and keep a box to play, making all easily transportable, even for a LAN Party. Also note that computers are most in requiring of a correct graphics card, netbooks cannot really use: the chipset limits the number of lines PCI-Express 4.

Note that AMD and its XGP (yet) had committed two faults: the solution using a link PCI-Express 8x and permit the device send the image on the card graphic laptop using the PGI as a display device. The problem with this technique is that it uses bandwidth to transfer between the two graphics cards and that this bandwidth is quite the weak point of most external card market. Also, even if AMD's XGP is technically efficient, the solution has been used by Fujitsu Siemens on one model of laptop and it requires the user to choose a machine based on AMD, a critical choice in a laptop. Moreover, the Radeon HD 3870 the only available solution is not usable.