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Re: Apple Abandons The Professional Workstation Market

From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Apr 22 07:53:54 2026

From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:41:46 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

Is that your idea of a “professional” solution -- having to gate PCI-E expansion through a Thunderbolt interface to get back to the PCI-E bus
again?

Here’s an example of a better way to do it: Framework is supporting connection via “OCuLink” on their high-end laptop <https://www.phoronix.com/news/FW-OCuLink-Dev-Kit-Preview>.

If you don’t know what that is, here <https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/oculink-outpaces-thunderbolt-5-in-nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-tests-latter-up-to-14-percent-slower-on-average-in-gaming-benchmarks>
is a comparison of OCuLink versus Thunderbolt. The difference is that Thunderbolt has to do “protocol tunnelling” to connect external PCIe
cards, whereas OCuLink just passes through the PCIe protocol natively.
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