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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 10:58:42 -0800
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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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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'.
>>>>>
>>>>> You act as though PCI-e 3 isn't great already.
>>>>
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)>
>>>
>>> Apple says it's as good so you accept it.
>>
>> It's hardly only Apple who says it, doofus.
>>
>> 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?