That is useful, thank you. (I note they currently have two versions of
the site, US and EU. Sigh.)
I'm still getting my head around the transition from 'this plug is for
displays, this plug is for ethernet, this plug is for...' to the new
'well it all goes in the same socket';)
<looks sadly at all the minidisplayport adaptors, now in a drawer...>
So far the M1 mac mini is doing everything they said; it's virtually
silent and a test encoding of a video in Handbrake ran twice as fast as
the old Mac Pro. I haven't yet tried installing iOS apps but note with
irritation at myself I just bought a Mac licence for something that will
probably be fine running as iOS (separate licence).
If anyone wants to know anything specific about how they perform, fire
away, happy to be the local guinea pig on this.
Cheers,
Jason
On 3 Dec 2020, at 10:41, 'Paul R Owen' via Sussex Mac User Group wrote:
This may be useful to someone.
The difference between Thunderbolt 3 ports on M1 macs and earlier
models.
Story (with image of device) available here:
https://tidbits.com/2020/12/02/thunderbolt-improvements-in-the-m1-based-macs/
<https://tidbits.com/2020/12/02/thunderbolt-improvements-in-the-m1-based-macs/>
Thunderbolt Improvements in the M1-Based Macs
<https://mailer.tidbits.com/l/hXWTpT6FK9WfKlm763R28R763w/yZ892ZsGUBUWzKULfHpf25Xg/VRPGF6w8MQteyAJn8O3hqg>
Over at the OWC Rocket Yard blog, SoftRAID developer Tim Standing
shares a welcome discovery about Apple’s new M1-based Macs
<https://mailer.tidbits.com/l/hXWTpT6FK9WfKlm763R28R763w/fm5MrsjoTTQDVmHDOphKKQ/VRPGF6w8MQteyAJn8O3hqg>.
Although the new Macs have only two Thunderbolt ports, compared to
four on the Intel-based 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini, Standing
discovered that each port has its own Thunderbolt bus. By comparison,
each pair of Thunderbolt ports on the Intel-based Macs share a bus,
meaning that they also share bandwidth. If you plug two fast drives
into ports that share a bus, performance suffers. Standing also notes
that the M1-based Macs support Thunderbolt 4, which differs from
Apple’s implementation of Thunderbolt 3 in only one fundamental way:
it offers support for Thunderbolt hubs that let you add more ports.
So yes, the M1-based Macs may have only two Thunderbolt ports, but
they’ll both provide full bandwidth and allow users to add more
ports through a hub. And as you might suspect, OWC has a Thunderbolt
Hub
<https://mailer.tidbits.com/l/hXWTpT6FK9WfKlm763R28R763w/uts7637R2aiofzZ3G9ZlL5Lg/VRPGF6w8MQteyAJn8O3hqg>
shipping soon for $149.
<https://mailer.tidbits.com/l/hXWTpT6FK9WfKlm763R28R763w/6WSqemSv4ErndIHRK30r4Q/VRPGF6w8MQteyAJn8O3hqg>
Paul Owen
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