苹果电脑巧变游戏利器

新华网 7月31日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo刊文称，科技鬼才工程师拉里·加迪运用适配器改装，大大提升苹果电脑MacBook Air的游戏体验。

苹果电脑MacBook Air在很多应用领域都是数一数二的笔记本电脑，但在游戏方面并不突出。一个科技鬼才却突破了11寸MacBook Air的局限，运用自己的创造力把它变成了游戏利器。

MacBook Air为人称赞的地方正是它玩游戏的缺陷所在：体积小，轻薄，蓄电能力强，无需携带多余部件。它的设计初衷就不是为实现强大的游戏功能，除非你是电脑游戏狂热爱好者，且拥有足够多的硬盘。

据这位科技鬼才拉里·加迪介绍，用一串适配器和NVIDIA GTX 570 eGPU外接显卡就可以满足玩大型游戏的装备要求。在他的示范视频《无主之地2》中，游戏的FPS值竟高达90，这竟是在一台分辨率仅为1366x768 的MacBook Air上完成的。

加迪的设计如下：用NVIDIA GTX 570 eGPU外接显卡，依次连接PE4L PCI Express bridge、Sonnet ExpressCard Pro、MacBook Air Thunderbolt I/O。所有的GPU和适配器总花销为250美元（可惜的是，他演示安装的论坛帖子现在不在了）。

不过，这个小工程虽然巧妙有趣，却并非最实用的方法。适配器和乱七八糟的连接线不像MacBook Air那样方便携带，1366 x 768的屏幕也并不能完全发挥超强渲染引擎的强大功能。但重点是，这项小发现本不该存在，如今却实实在在地诞生了！Thunderbolt强大连接性使得插入和拔出设备都十分便利。这项小工程正体现了那些神来之笔的创造所具备的特点。

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A Wonderful Lunatic Turned a MacBook Air Into a Badass Gaming Rig

The MacBook Air is an incredible laptop for many reasons, none of those being "good for gaming". But this geek hero just straight up refused to accept the limitations of the 11-inch MacBook Air, and made it hum like a gaming laptop—with the help of a little creativity.

The MacBook Air stinks at gaming for the same reasons it's wonderful for everyday people: It's small, lightweight, and is powerful enough for the average user without any extraneous heft to bog you down. It's supposed to be less than ideal for gaming. You know, unless you're an insane person with a ton of spare hardware lying around.

As we learn from Larry Gadea, a chain of adapters will allow you to get the extra cycles you need for heavyweight games from a NVIDIA GTX 570 eGPU (an external graphics card). In the Borderlands 2 demo above, Gadea is getting some pretty impressive 90 fps performance out of just a MacBook Air (on its admittedly meager 1366x768 display).

How does he do it? Here's the chain: NVIDIA GTX 570 eGPU —< PE4L PCI Express bridge —

While this little project is super fun and clever, it's not exactly the most practical solution in the world. The cumbersome mess of cables and adapters isn't going to travel as well as your MacBook Air, and that 1366 x 768 screen is hardly optimized for a gorgeous rendering engine. But that's the entire point! There is no reason at all zero none in the world for this to exist. And yet, here it is! Yes, the Thunderbolt connectivity makes this thing easy enough to plug and unplug, as though that makes it make any more sense. This thing is wonderful, in that oh-god-what sort of way most insane things are. [Twitter via MacRumors]

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