• Twofacetony@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Is there a reason why the two USBC I/O ports on the front aren’t ThunderBolt capable?

    Having a couple of I/O ports nice and accessible at the front is awesome, but why limit them to 10gb/s when TB3 will do 20Gbps, TB4 will do 40Gbps and TB5 will do 80Gbps. I imagine there will be many people out there that will inadvertently use the front ports thinking they’re the same speed

    • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It costs extra to have hardware that can support the full spec on all ports simultaneously. The rear ports have the higher bandwidth to support screens with lots of pixels and a high frame rate, plus they are more likely to be daisy chained.