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I love the concept of it and have been thinking about getting one the only problem I see right now is no ability as far as I can see to get an external dock to run an additional external gpu in the future.

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I'm not sure what do you mean? I'm running eGPU with my Strix Point laptop via Thunderbolt.

I've also seen quite a few mini PCs with Oculink port and Strix Halo CPUs.

I was reading people having problems getting the external cards working if they had a lot of memory?

> In a Linux context I got some GPUs working and I can add some [external] GPU devices. Minis forum when I reached out to them said they don't officially support either via the Thunderbolt compatibility USB 4, USB4 v2 or even the built-in PCIe slot. Yeah, not technically officially supported and it's because of the resource allocation and the BAR space and they need somebody on the BIOS team to understand that to fix it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvNYpyA1ZGk

There are ways to manage BAR better in linux or with UEFI preboot environments for windows as hobbyists have been doing for ages due to bad BIOS support https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI

Thanks for the pointer. I have been struggling to get either a oculink or USB4 PCIe tunnel to work with the framework desktop. HOpefully some clues here.

There are plenty of mini-PCs with USB4 and Oculink, and you can get an M.2 adapter (might be tricky to retrofit into a laptop though).

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