Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

On 2024-12-06 10:48, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2024-12-06 06:28, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2024-12-05 19:32, Joel wrote:

-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
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Make sure to also include an NVMe benched on the open slot that's on the
slower PCIe 3 bus that you've been saying is your 'future expansion'.

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You act as though PCI-e 3 isn't great already.

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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)>

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Apple says it's as good so you accept it.

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It's hardly only Apple who says it, doofus.
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It's been extensively reviewed.

  Oh really, and I should care?  It's not complex, Apple sells their
spin on OEM hardware, complete with their own software, but it's not
as great a bargain as buying computer parts to run Linux.

But you've forgotten why this conversation arose.
It arose (in text you've conveniently snipped) because you tried to suggest that external drives couldn't be equivalent.
Thunderbolt IS PCIe.
Thunderbolt 3 is x4 PCIe 3.0.
So how is an external drive connected by Thunderbolt NOT equivalent to one connected internally?