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frollogastontoday at 12:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

eGPUs are kind of a joke. People would be way more likely to use dedicated GPUs with Macs if they had PCIe slots.


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MBCooktoday at 3:39 AM

The last Mac with good PCIe slots was the 2019-2023 Mac Pro. So that’s almost a decade ago, and sold poorly. It never got a real refresh.

Before that was the pre-trash can Mac Pro in 2006-2012. So that was canceled most of a decade before the 2019 model.

High bandwidth PCIe hasn’t been a thing in Apple world for most of 15 years.

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15155today at 12:59 AM

What exactly is the difference between an internal PCIe slot and Oculink or Thunderbolt from an electrical and functional perspective?

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