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kjkjadksjlast Saturday at 4:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Remember when they enabled egpu over thunderbolt and no one cared because the thunderbolt housing cost almost as much as your macbook outright? Yeah. Thunderbolt is a racket. It’s a god damned cord. Why is it $50.


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wmflast Saturday at 5:13 AM

In this case Thunderbolt is much much cheaper than 100G Ethernet.

(The cord is $50 because it contains two active chips BTW.)

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