Mike Wuerthele

bestkeptsecret said:

Delta certainly has scratched my itch for NES, SNES & N64 games. Once the iPad app is available, it will be retro-game nirvana with a controller!
I'm waiting for a nice Sega Genesis emulator. 

Delta is adding Genesis soon. No idea on timetable.

bulk001 said:

Only time will tell if you are right. Why don’t you reschedule this post for an update in 2 years. Personally my money is on the DOJ who, you know has actual lawyers and stuff, as opposed to two writers of an Apple blog. 

It literally says in the article that we talked to DC antitrust lawyers.

Two years is optimistic. I'd be surprised if this was done in five -- which is also addressed in the piece.

Madbum said:

Joe Biden needs to go. I am sorry but I am not usually political but this guy is ridiculous 

This started two years into the Trump administration.

killroy said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

killroy said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

killroy said:

Using the term twice the bandwidth is playing with fire. This is not a Thunderbolt 5 dock.

I guess I'm not sure what else you'd call it, considering it literally uses two Thunderbolt host ports, and two thunderbolt controllers in the dock.

But you would have to use two thunderbolt ports on the Mac. And those ports would have to be independent. The last Mac with independent ports I have seen is a Mac mini Intel. Each CPU on KVM would only be giving you 40 Gb per second.

Fundamentally, because of how Apple Silicon handles Thunderbolt I/O, all Thunderbolt ports on Apple Silicon Macs have independent bandwidth, and aren't on a timer. This is probably why the company says this dock only works on Apple Silicon.

So you can get up to 80 Gib if you use both ports. I wonder if anyone did some testing on the real speed you get.

This is really, really complicated for a lot of reasons. Thunderbolt and USB4 aren't really 40 gigabit in most cases, they're 32 gigabit and (maybe) an additional 8 gigabit -- and even that depends on PCI-E allocation to various ports, and engineering choices made not just by Apple, but by the dock, and attached peripheral vendors too. Then, there's ethernet and USB overhead. There's just too many variables to have a quantitative measure, absolutely, in every scenario.

All we can really go on, is nearly all of the time, two thunderbolt ports, with two controllers on both ends = double the bandwidth.

killroy said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

killroy said:

Using the term twice the bandwidth is playing with fire. This is not a Thunderbolt 5 dock.

I guess I'm not sure what else you'd call it, considering it literally uses two Thunderbolt host ports, and two thunderbolt controllers in the dock.

But you would have to use two thunderbolt ports on the Mac. And those ports would have to be independent. The last Mac with independent ports I have seen is a Mac mini Intel. Each CPU on KVM would only be giving you 40 Gb per second.

Fundamentally, because of how Apple Silicon handles Thunderbolt I/O, all Thunderbolt ports on Apple Silicon Macs have independent bandwidth, and aren't on a timer. This is probably why the company says this dock only works on Apple Silicon.