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Re:New Mac Pro by cm2187 on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:44PM (#20089187)

But isn't SFP+ not compatible with 1G (i.e. can only be used with a 10G network equipment)? If you are selling a machine that people will plug into either a 1gbe or 10gbe network, you'd rather have some interface that can downgrade.

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Re:New Mac Pro by buildbot on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:04PM (#20090382)

You can use SFP in an SFP+ socket, but not the other way around. The downgrade to 1GB would work fine. Since this is still a desk focused machine vs. datacenter, I'd expect most offices to be wired to cat6 ethernet which can do 10GB if needed vs. SFP+ cables or SFP+ to Fiber.

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Re:New Mac Pro by eropple on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:10PM (#20090427)

That, and I'd still expect an RJ-45 port somewhere.

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Re:New Mac Pro by Hikikomori on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:53AM (#20092538)

Not always true, it needs explicit support for SFP as it's not backwards compatible.

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Re:New Mac Pro by Unklejoe on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:13PM (#20090799)

You can find SFP+ modules that support both 10G and 1G.

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