Well, sort of. One of the dilemmas of building a dedicated beast of a gaming rig means that you're pretty much screwed in terms of portability. And shelling out for a good notebook instead, means you can take it anywhere, but there's a sizeable hit in graphics performance. With the notebook sales on the up and up devices like the Razer Core are starting to become more and more of a viable alternative. A plug-and-play Thunderbolt enclosure to house just about any top of the line video-card on the market.

And it'll simply connect and power any compatible notebook.

“Razer continues to innovate in the laptops category where big systems brands either cannot or will not,” says Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO. “This time, in collaboration with industry leaders, we’ve created the world’s first external graphics card solution of its kind, bringing the GPU power of a desktop PC to the latest Razer laptops, such as the Razer Blade Stealth Ultrabook, through a single Thunderbolt™ 3 connection with plug-and-play convenience.”

“All consumers, non-gamers and gamers alike, now can easily migrate from their Razer laptop for on-the-go performance to driving a full desktop experience using Razer Core, including enhanced graphics and simple connectivity to peripherals.”

The graphics enclosure supports a single double-wide, full-length, PCI-Express x16 graphics card. Qualified AMD Radeon™ graphics cards are available for use with the Razer Core. At launch of the Razer Core, NVIDIA will support GeForce GTX GPUs, including the entire lineup of Maxwell GPUs, such as the best-selling GTX 970. The Razer Core will be compatible with Razer’s latest systems including the Blade Stealth Ultrabook, and the new Razer Blade 14-inch gaming laptop in the near future.

The Razer Core is expected to launch in April with a current U.S. price of $499. The unit supports all the latest Graphics Cards from AMD and Nvidia, including the mythical NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX Titan X. The Razer Blade gaming notebooks will also be getting new shinier versions that will of course be compatible with the Core and available at around about the same time. For those that decide to purchase both Razer will be offering up a discount on each Core and Blade combo sold.

It'll be interesting to know if this is the sort of gaming setup you've considered setting up? The portability of the notebook definitely is a strong argument, but the additional box, cards, monitors and other bits and pieces still kind of make it feel a little bit like a patchwork. We've seen a few versions of the above in action and the results are definitely comparable to the desktop solution.