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The question is how many of those cards that would work as a USB-C or Thunderbolt-4 box (or maybe even 10G ethernet).

At least all the audio cards should be doable as external boxes.



That's the situation AV pros were in during the Trashcan era and they hated it.


The TrashCan is 10 years old. It had only Thunderbolt 2 and gigabit ethernet.

We've also got USB-C in the meantime, including a lot of USB-C displays.

So I think this is a case of "too early". The market looks very different today at how fast external communication is.

I'd say that MacStudio is really todays TrashCan. Much better timing, so much better success.


USB-C displays only use the connector, the traffic then goes over alternate mode, mostly DisplayPort. For 4k@60, unless both devices support DP 1.4, then both USB3 pairs are used for DP and there's no wiring left for USB3, only for USB2.

It is almost the reverse of TB1/TB2, when a mini-DisplayPort connector was used to negotiate TB.




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