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rob53 said:

sflocal said:

Dr.MORO said:

Hi all,
Just an amateur question.
Thunderbolt 3/4 is compatible to carry PCIe of what specification or lower at this moment?
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The current Thunderbolt spec provides 40gb/s bandwidth.  While fast, it's still far below PCIe 3.0 max of 32GB/s.  I don't see a time where Thunderbolt will be at the same speed as the native PCIe bus.  

The PCIe 6.0 specification I think will be geared more for servers than for consumer PC's.  It involves some pretty expensive tech, and motherboard fabrication to handle those high speeds which is why it will be limited to servers, render-farms, etc..

In other words, there’s nothing really wrong with the version Apple used in the 2019 Mac Pro. Apple didn’t put any devices in the Mac Pro that would economically benefit from PCIe 4/5/6 so author is complaining about nothing. 

saarek said:

I’ve got the MagSafe issue. To be fair it’s all part and parcel of a new Mac Design. It shouldn’t be, but the old “it just works” stopped being the case years ago.

sflocal said:

rcfa said:

The real issue of M1 Max is: NO ECC RAM!!
And unfortunately almost nobody gets why that’s important…

What Macbook came with ECC RAM?

Appleish said:

I know that there are a lot of use cases out there for some to need the new Intel Mac Pro, but knowing the M1 MBPs were coming, how many could have just waited.

All those Mac Pros out there can't be upgraded to Apple Silicon. What a waste. Flame away...

fastasleep said:

A minute of 4K ProRes 422HQ is 6GB
A minute of 4K ProRes 4444HQ is 8GB

Whichever flavor of ProRes it is, it's gonna suck up storage really quickly. The only other possible reason is the storage in the 128 isn't fast enough to keep up, but that seems unlikely.