W540 with an external GPU, would it be possible?

Hi everyone, I was wondering if it would be possible to connect an external GPU trough the Express card adapter on my W540.I would use this devicehttp://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.htmlWith an AMD Radeon r9 280x+ external Monitor and power supply.(also the r9 280x uses PCI Express 3.0 would that be an issue?)My W540s processor is an Intel Core i7-4900MQ CPU @ 2.80GHzThanks!

It really depends on where you use it. I know many have made an issue of the glare screen. I went and played with it at the local Apple store and decided I could make it work. By using lamps appropriately in my area, I don't have issues with glare. And I appreciate the clarity of the screen.
Now, if I were getting a laptop, I'd insist on the non-glare screen, because various environments are difficult to control. But in my office, I have easily made it work, and am pleased with the result.

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Java broken some software here and there, all you'll have to do is wait for a update from the other parties.

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Intermittently using Time Machine with an External Hard Drive

Ok, Kappy answered some questions I had about how Time Machine works with an external hard drive.
After doing more reading about Time Machine, I found out that a person can, for example, leave the drive powered-off for a couple of weeks and only periodically or intermittently use Time Machine for back up. However, in the online article I read dated 2009, the author suggested that he didn't know how well Time Machine would work making up for the two weeks, or however long, no files had been backed up.
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Thanks for reading this and thanks if you feel my questions warrant answering.
Note: I do have another external hard drive where I occasionally manually back-up photos, gifs, music, etc.

JohnHusk wrote:
Ok, Kappy answered some questions I had about how Time Machine works with an external hard drive.
After doing more reading about Time Machine, I found out that a person can, for example, leave the drive powered-off for a couple of weeks and only periodically or intermittently use Time Machine for back up.
If you go several days between backups, Time Machine may have to do a "deep traversal," comparing every folder on your system to the backups, to determine what's changed and needs to be backed-up. This depends on the volume of changes, so can happen after an OSX update, but in other circumstances might be after several days. This isn't a big problem, but it does take longer, and the more data you have, the longer it takes.
Worse, after an extended period, Time Machine may do a new, full backup of your entire system, rapidly filling-up your TM drive.
If that's the way you want to back up, Time Machine is not the backup app for you. One of it's main features is the way it can do quick hourly backups of what's changed, so you have an excellent chance of recovering a previous version (or versions) when you change or delete something in error, or a file comes up corrupted, or your Mac fails.
Why don't you want to just leave the drive connected and Time Machine running, to protect you best, as it was designed to do?
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