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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wmf 2 days ago | parent [-]

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

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

	▲	geerlingguy 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, even decent 40 Gbps QSFP+ DAC cables are usually $30+, and those don't have active electronics in them like Thunderbolt does. The ability to also deliver 240W (IIRC?) over the same cable is also a bit different here, it's more like FireWire than a standard networking cable.