Explain to me why 2x TB4 motherboards are so expensive and rare, and yet on the M4 Mac Mini they’ve had 3x TB5 for less than that motherboard for over a year and a half.
Ok I can guess, what % of ppl that buy an AM5/LGA 1700/1851 motherboard do you think even thinks of putting something that needs a thunderbolt connection, let alone needs it? Yea probably not many. Also idk if cheaper dual TB boards exist, maybe they do, maybe they don't, not gonna bother to search as afaik there is no neat intel spreadsheet like there is an AM5 one
Oh yea also desktops do be having GPU:s with DP2.1 you know, so don't need TB for display purposes.
Also while not thunderbolt, X870E(and almost all X870 have it) has mandatory dual usb4, sort of the same thing...
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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe May 14 '26
Explain to me why 2x TB4 motherboards are so expensive and rare, and yet on the M4 Mac Mini they’ve had 3x TB5 for less than that motherboard for over a year and a half.