I just upgraded to a 16” MacBook Pro, M3 Max. GREAT machine! Bummer they REMOVED a Thunderbolt port to add a SLOW SD Card reader and an HDMI port.
Anyway, Try to find Thunderbolt 3 accessories, never mind Thunderbolt 4. Managed to get a CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 hub, but there doesn’t seem to be much else in terms of even Thunderbolt 3 stuff out there.
Meanwhile they’re pushing Thunderbolt 5. This reminds me of the FireWire timeline.
My ideal setup is my Macbook Pro with one Thunderbolt 5 cable powering the macbook that connects to a 32" 8K monitor with a TB5 passthrough feeding another 32" 8K monitor both at 60Hz or better. The back of the monitor would have a 10GB ethernet port and 3 or 4 USB-C ports that would connect my microphone, webcam and time machine hard drive. One TB5 cable for power and all communication to my Macbook Pro would be amazing. Apple just needs to make a Studio Display Pro with those features when they release a new MBP with TB5.
Even better than your 32” 8K monitor would be 40” 8K.
That could still retain “Retina” resolution at 220 pixels per inch.
I'll see your two 40" 8k monitors and raise it to a single curved 49" 16K x 4.5K pixel display at a minimum of 60Hz. That works out to 326 pixels per inch which matches the iPhone.
So in theory I can hook up a 4tb ssd with read speeds around 7400 mbps and it should be able to fully take advantage of the storage device? (I will be using this for gaming on mac)
So in theory I can hook up a 4tb ssd with read speeds around 7400 mbps and it should be able to fully take advantage of the storage device? (I will be using this for gaming on mac)
You mean 7.4 GByte/s? On a TB5 bus yes.
No idea if the TB5 ports on the Macs with M4 Pro and Max are sharing ports per TB5 bus or not, but if it is like their TB4 design, each TB5 port has a dedicated bus to it. You'd need to find an actual TB5 external SSD, or a TB5 to PCIe expansion box which you can install PCIe SSDs.
It's going to be interesting to hear the hollering when people learn that this or that TB5 SSD comes with a big heatsink, a power brick, and possibly even a fan. A 7.4 GB/s SSD is on the ragged edge of being bus-powered? Might be throttled?
I was looking at the mac mini Pro just to get TB5 for some future-proofing and then saw a YT video that basically said it's primarily for downstream video and won't make your SSDs any faster. So, no Mac mini pro for me.
Zyron tech sells usb-c cables with a max power tag, and interestingly an LED that tells you the amount of power being fed through them at any one time.
So in theory I can hook up a 4tb ssd with read speeds around 7400 mbps and it should be able to fully take advantage of the storage device? (I will be using this for gaming on mac)
You mean 7.4 GByte/s? On a TB5 bus yes.
No idea if the TB5 ports on the Macs with M4 Pro and Max are sharing ports per TB5 bus or not, but if it is like their TB4 design, each TB5 port has a dedicated bus to it. You'd need to find an actual TB5 external SSD, or a TB5 to PCIe expansion box which you can install PCIe SSDs.
It's going to be interesting to hear the hollering when people learn that this or that TB5 SSD comes with a big heatsink, a power brick, and possibly even a fan. A 7.4 GB/s SSD is on the ragged edge of being bus-powered? Might be throttled?
I originally bought the ssd for the ps5 and wondered if the same ssd would work as a native storage device for mac gaming and video editing. All i need is a thunderbolt 5 enclosure since my ssd already has a heatsink and since I got it pretty cheap because of employee discounts I wouldn’t have to worry about the Apple tax and use that saved amount for a better chip and memory
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I just upgraded to a 16” MacBook Pro, M3 Max. GREAT machine!
Bummer they REMOVED a Thunderbolt port to add a SLOW SD Card reader and an HDMI port.
Managed to get a CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 hub, but there doesn’t seem to be much else in terms of even Thunderbolt 3 stuff out there.
Meanwhile they’re pushing Thunderbolt 5. This reminds me of the FireWire timeline.
No idea if the TB5 ports on the Macs with M4 Pro and Max are sharing ports per TB5 bus or not, but if it is like their TB4 design, each TB5 port has a dedicated bus to it. You'd need to find an actual TB5 external SSD, or a TB5 to PCIe expansion box which you can install PCIe SSDs.
It's going to be interesting to hear the hollering when people learn that this or that TB5 SSD comes with a big heatsink, a power brick, and possibly even a fan.