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jdw said:

fastasleep said:

dutchlord said:

$159 for a cable right? #byebye

Active Thunderbolt cables are expensive, this isn't news. This is also the only option available if you need this length and power/data.

Length/power/datarate/value aside, what is a practical use-case for this TB4 cable right now?

godofbiscuits said:

Because a trillion dollar petroleum fund has the strong ethics to say no to income and wealth disparity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway

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. 

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...