Upgrading to the G14 zephyrus ? eGPU setup?

[alexdpars]

I have an alienware 17 R3 which isn't a bad computer but I'm starting to have issues with it and thinking about changing it to the new G14 zephyrus with Ryzen 4800HS 32GB of ram by the end of the year. I am a software developper and i'm running several applications at the same time (multiple instance of visual studio, tons of chrome/firefox tabs, MSSQL instance + SSMS,IIS, XAMPP and goes on ). I'm also a casual gamer and I am thinking to switching my two monitor setup for an ultra wide 34 inchs monitor 100hz freesync. My alienware was doing the job fine when I bought it 4 years ago but lately it started to hurt my productivity. And I also changed work and I need to travel more with my laptop and my alienware is starting to feel heavy.

 

I can't go desktop because I don't have an office at home (I'm sharing my son's in law room to work on day to work from my dual screen and he take over at night and I move over with my laptop to the living room to continue working). He have his own laptop and we use a dell docking station to switch between them (which work but I have issues for mouse and keyboard). There are my concerns for the future. I was thinking about using my dell docking station to switch between the two laptops but I don't think I will be able to use variable refresh rate with it will I ? So I may switch for an eGPU (I't would be great for my son's in law to benifit from a GPU "upgrade" since his GPU will not be able to use 1440p and the G14 2060 loook promising but if I can get a full blown 2070 (would it be bottleneck ?) in it it would gain performance wouldn'it ?). Is there an eGPU enclosure that support RJ45 and usb Type A ? But again I think that the G14 is usb-C only and have no thunderbolt ports correct? I want the G14 because of the ryzen chip in it and it's price/cpu power ration and portability. Do you know if there will be other ryzen 4000 laptop released in 2020 ? What would be the best setup for me there ?

 

Let me know what you think

[alexdpars]

Anyone?

[Ruptured]

IM also curiouse about if the g14 can use an egpu. It doesnt have thunderbolt so most people would say no however some said the TUF 15 can do it with its non thunderbolt usbc port since it has a direct conneciton with the inbuild gpu with display port support.
g14 has display port suppot but still doesnt mean an egpu will work. From looking at bench marks even the rtx 2060 non max q mobile gpu is still less powerful than my desktop 1660 ti.

THis post is old so IM guessing you already figured it out. If you ended up gettting the g14 and an egpu can you confirm if it works?