MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by jd3 on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:18PM (#28911897)

i was also hoping that they would somehow be able to shoehorn an ethernet port inside of the power adapter, like on the M1 iMac

on my M1 MacBook Pro (which, throughout the pandemic, has rested on my desk in clamshell mode all day, like a desktop), I use a

  ethernet <=> ethernet to thunderbolt 2 <=> thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3/usb-c

adapter chain, which takes up an entire usb-c port since it doesn't work at all when I plug it into the usb-c pass-through on my other usb-c hub

unfortunately, there seems to be some kind of hardware bug in the thunderbolt 2 ethernet adapter, so even when the machine is asleep or off, it runs hot

it also seems weird that Apple doesn't manufacture a first party ethernet <=> usb-c adapter — if i'm not mistaken, the only one on their website is made by Belkin and costs $30; moreover, I don't think anyone even manufactures a 10gbps ethernet adapter for the M1

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by matthew-wegner on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:35PM (#28912690)

There are Thunderbolt 3 10gbit adapters that work on M1. I use a QNAP QNA-T310G1S on an M1 Mini with no issues. It's SFP+, which I prefer--both due to existing hardware I already have, and for lighter power consumption compared to 10gbit over RJ45.

QNA-T310G1T is the RJ45 model, but there are other makes available too.

(I bought the Mini at launch, and they've since released a SKU with built-in 10gbit Ethernet)

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