Intel Unveils 14th Gen Core HX Series Processors with Thunderbolt 5

What always bugged me about Thunderbolt was the lack of maisntream adoption of external Thunderbolt GPU docks that aren't ludicrously expensive and don't significantly nerf your gaming performance. Everythiong with 'Thunderbolt' sticker on it cost an arm and a leg comapred to USB and if you put a high-end GPU in a Thundebolt dock you lost about 20% performance which was money down the drain.

It was always my dream that one day we can have thin and light notebooks with iGPU for on the go, connected via a single cable to an external GPU dock sitting at home just for heavy gaming/ML/GGPU instead of having a notebook and a gaming tower PC, but it never became really mainstream, too many issues and compromises along with the prohibitive price meaning it was more cost effective to have a dedicated gaming tower PC and a separate thin notebook.

Curious if Thunderbolt 5 finally enables my dream to come true. I just don't want to have a tower PC taking up space and having to maintain two separate machines and switch between them whenever I want a quick game between work/consuming content. My current interim compromise is a laptop with a Ryzen APU, portable enough but still can play some light games without the pricetag of an extra Nvidia GPU and the hassle of Nvidia drivers and having to switch GPUs and display outputs.

Still, chapeau to Intel for moving this tech along. Let's see what the industry and the market does with it. Genuinely excited for this way more than new CPUs.

EDIT: This is Meteor lake, not the Raptor Lake-S Refresh. Mea culpa.