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Silly John Fatty

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So the Mini has 4 Thunderbolt ports, behind which hide 2 Thunderbolt controllers. So it's really two Thunderbolt "sources" in some way, with four facades.

I know they say the max. bandwidth is 40 Gb/s. But that is per controller, right? So that would be 80 Gb/s in total in that case. If I'm right.

Also, does anyone happen to know how much bandwidth a 27" Apple Cinema Display needs? Just out of curiosity, because I can't put a number at all on this (I know it will be enough … but still wondering).
 
AFAIK each port is directly connected to it's own controller, so 160 Gbits/s in total.

27" Cinema Display is 21.60 Gbit/s.

Hmm, I read that the models with 4 ports have two controllers and the ones with 2 ports only 1 controller.

160 Gb/s would be huge (I don't need them)l

About the display: Those 21.6 Gb/s are the maximum or what's being sent continuously? I assume it depends on what you stream? It would be interesting to know how much data is for example just having the desktop opened and fiddling in Finder.
 
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