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Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs by Keyframe on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:41PM (#18170106)
Same for AMD. Not even a consideration without thunderbolt.
Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs by berbec on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:18PM (#18171398)
We should see it sooner or later. Thunderbolt is royalty-free.

But what application are you needing more than 10Gbps externally?

Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs by Marsymars on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:15PM (#18173056)
> But what application are you needing more than 10Gbps externally?

Laptop docking. Running a 4K monitor over a USB Type-C cable leaves you with only the USB 2.0 lanes available for data. (And 5K is impossible.)

Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs by Keyframe on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:27AM (#18174691)
All of the damn external disks and devices I bought for video editing.