laptop powered by workstation gpu

[tertuliamiguel]

I heard you like challenges!

So, i would like to connect a laptop to a workstation gpu, via thunderbolt.

 

Hi Linus!

 

I am working with a 3 year old workstation, and now i am considering in buying a new laptop (maybe a macbook pro), and become more mobile.

My production sotftware is specially adobe cs. For still images, and for video preview and selection, the laptop is more than enough, but if i need to edit or render clips (premiere and AE), GPU power is fundamental.

 

Since i'm not interested in having 2 adobe cs licences, my reasonable choice was to buy an external gpu, that would connect to the laptop via thunderbolt, and use it only when needed (and that's also a lot of money, and at the same time, i have a complete machine with a gpu card and free pci slots).

 

So, my idea is to transform the workstation in a nas server, add a thunderbolt pci card, and connect it via thunderbolt to the laptop (where the software is at).

Is it possible (and usable)? What kind of problems would i have? Can i also use the disks (ssd) from the nas with the same connection?

 

Thanx!

Miguel

[Slockna]

If you already have a workstation desktop which your using as a NAS? If so you could add a GPU into said device and then using Adobe Media Exporter have it set up to Auto Process anything you drop into a folder and export to a different one. 

 

I haven't seen any information that a external GPU such as the one which Razer Core working with apple however I may be wrong about this.