Another very interesting product ASUS had on display at its booth was the XG Station, which is basically a dedicated external graphics card for notebook PCs. The XG station comes equipped with a standard PCI Express 16x slot, allowing any standard PCI Express 16x video card to be used with it.

The XG Station has a built-in screen which displays system information such as the framerate of the game being played, GPU temperature, and the cooling fan’s speed.

ASUS was also displaying two new notebook models, the G1 and the G2. Both solutions are based on the Intel Core 2 Duo and the only major difference between the two is the chipsets used. The G1 uses the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 while the G2 uses the ATI Mobility Radeon X1700.

Both laptops have been designed to be aesthetically pleasing, as is evident in the above photograph. The “WASD” keys, the major keys for movement in PC games, light up whenever a video game is running. The NVIDIA-chipset based model lights up green while the ATI-chipset based model lights up red.