09-14-2015, 10:02 PM
silvarios wrote:
[quote=August West]
I'm not sure how a small user base makes it crap. I, and many I know, are using Thunderbolt.
Because you wanted to or your devices didn't have USB 3.0? Are you a professional video editor?
As an different example, USB3 will not let me run a 3440x1440 monitor on a 2011 or 2012 Mac at a reasonable refresh rate - 50Hz. In fact it won't do any refresh rate at all but Thunderbolt does. On these machines, you can run 3440x1440 at 30Hz with Displayport but no higher. TB enables the bandwidth to make this monitor usable.
That said, I bought a 2012 2.6 quad mini refurb to replace a 2011 2.0 quad mini refurb for equal parts USB3 and faster cpu. 2011 should have been USB3 but was USB2 only. Lame.