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The Thunderbolt 3 ports are each somewhere in the neighborhood of the bandwidth of a PCIe 8x slot, arguably giving this about the approximately the expandabilit
by jdboyd 9y ago
The Thunderbolt 3 ports are each somewhere in the neighborhood of the bandwidth of a PCIe 8x slot, arguably giving this about the approximately the expandability of an HP or Dell single socket workstation.
I'm not saying this should be preferred to a traditional tower, just that it isn't fair to say it has no expandability.
- qubex 9y agoI'm of the internal-cards over external-cables school of thought. I've been plugging circuit boards into backplanes since the S-100 bus era, and I'm very much committed to the idea of a discrete computer chassis containing all the major computing components as a distinct entity compared to the screen. I still have desktop machines because of this.
- MrFlynn 9y agoThunderbolt 3 ports are closer to PCIe 3.0 x4, not x8. Regardless it won't cause a huge performance hit depending on your workload (about 5-10% slower in gaming benchmarks). But YMMV with applications that require more bandwidth.
- DuskStar 9y agoI mean, the Trashcan Mac Pro had Thunderbolt expandability too. But that doesn't seem to have been as much as people were hoping for then.
- emptythought 9y agowhich then need 2-500 chassis, or overpriced RAID arrays to do anything useful with...