Post #2890703
2026-04-02 03:16 UTC
@atpfm@mastodon.social
The tradeoff is: a 16-lane PCIe card always has the potential for 4x the bandwidth as ThunderBolt (which has traditionally using only 4-lanes of PCIe).
I'm sure there are lots (a few hundred?) of niche users which Apple is kicking off the platform, who use:
- high end networking;
- high end video / audio;
- high end storage;
- who knows what other shockingly small niches out there.
I'm sure Apple's making the right business choice.
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@camerageek@fosstodon.org 2026-04-03 23:08
@dschaub@mstdn.social @atpfm@mastodon.social I'm in one of those niche industries and am mourning the loss of a Mac that we load up with Video IO cards. I just set up 2 brand new Mac Pros recently for multiple channels of ST2110 capture. The industry is filled with people who would prefer to use Macs but who are being (and have been) pushed to Windows due to lack of support for high end GPUs and now lack of PCI bandwidth.