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Should we cancel our pre-orders now that TB3 has no support
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Yes, but only if your order is in line before mine.
Otherwise, seriously?!? It doesn't work with a single crummy chip... yes, let's just all freak out...
Otherwise, seriously?!? It doesn't work with a single crummy chip... yes, let's just all freak out...
It doesn't work with some TI-based devices that probably aren't fully up to Intel's spec. It works fine with Intel-based devices, and presumably at some point TI will get its act together or Apple will issue a software update to compensate.
I must have missed something. What're the issues you guys are referring to?
There's a Texas Instruments chip that says it supports thunderbolt 3, but has a bad implementation. It doesn't work with the MacBook Pro.
It's like complaining that a Kia brake pad won't fit on your Lexus, and demanding Lexus fix their car so it will....
Not quite, since Thunderbolt 3 is supposed to be a standard. If you want to stick with a car analogy, it's akin to complaining that Bridgestone tires won't fit on your car despite ordering the correct fitment.
In this case, Bridgestone used metric instead of inches though, and made the tire way too small as a result...
It's not the correct fitment. All signs point to the ti chips not meeting the spec, since no problems with intel-based stuff.
Oh yes! It's a disaster I agree. Now, go ahead and cancel it, you will loosen queue a little bit.
Again, when did you pre-order?
I thought you cancel it, when they "removed" iconic startup chime...
If you can live with playing roulette whenever you're buying new device to attach to your MBP, keep it.
For me I'll wait until the whole USB-C / TB3 stabilise. Enough insult to have to pay premium for mediocrity and being beta tester at that while dropping my productivity. It's the hassle of having to do research and return the things if they don't work. I just want to buy and use for my work.
For me I'll wait until the whole USB-C / TB3 stabilise. Enough insult to have to pay premium for mediocrity and being beta tester at that while dropping my productivity. It's the hassle of having to do research and return the things if they don't work. I just want to buy and use for my work.
Yes, I suggest all of you cancel your orders immediately so my order moves further up in the queue.
Seriously though, I'm not so sure this is Apple's fault. We are in a transition phase with all this stuff and we can expect some incompatibility until things settle down.
True. In the mean time, you can connect your TB3 TI-based products to your... umm... do you have any?
Don't forget this device is also Ram Gimped. Why spend top dollar for a beta product?
Has the same amount of RAM as my current MBP, and more RAM than I need or have ever needed. I don't design microprocessors anymore, but when I did even those workstations never had more RAM than these machines. And in the unlikely event I do something that requires transient memory greater than physical memory, the fact that it has the world's fastest SSD (i ordered the 2TB version) means that virtual memory paging will be fast enough that I probably won't even notice. "Beta product" is silly.
Except those TI chips work fine with other thubderbolt 3 computers and even work fine when running Windows on the MBPs. It's an Apple limitation.
I agree, everyone who ordered before 11:40AM PDT on October 27th please do cancel your orders immediately....
Which is to say: It's apparently possible to make them work. At which point, I think it's up to Apple to either make them work or explain why they can't.
Apple should follow the spec (which they apparently do, since they use intel controllers and intel create different the spec). Accommodating buggy third party implementations may be possible, but it shouldn't be their priority.
That is not how specs work. Intel can, and does, create things which fail to follow their own specs. It's happened before, and it will happen again.
Does the spec state that you should specifically blacklist a particular chipset? If not, then blacklisting that chipset isn't "following the spec".
In the absence of a clear technical statement from Apple as to why blacklisting that chipset is necessary for compliance, the default assumption is that the entire point of having a "spec" is to allow interoperability between competing vendors. You don't see people saying "well, of course they can't drive that chipset, it's not a Xerox chipset, so it's not really a valid Ethernet chipset", do you? No, you don't.