[fragmede]

Yeah, sorry, no. Thunderbolt does have overhead and limitations, but imo those limitations don't justify making a new standard, even if it's more open than the others. Maybe you could say more about those limitations and convince me?

[krasin]

For instance, Thunderbolt bandwidth is limited to 40 Gbit/s. The Framework adapter for GPU is PCIE x8, which gives 128 Gbit/s.

(not affiliated with the Framework company, only as a owner of two 13" Framework laptops; so I might be wrong/incomplete about the limitations implied by the OP)

[Dylan16807]

There are companies putting nonstandard PCIe ports on the outsides of laptops, and compared to that an internal custom port is much less egregious. 40Gbps is just not enough to run a GPU without significant performance loss. Especially when 40Gbps is actually 32Gbps of PCIe and on older controllers there's an arbitrary limit of 22Gbps.

I really hope thunderbolt 5 in asymmetrical mode can devote the entire 120Gbps of outgoing data to PCIe, and doesn't have some stupid limit like 64Gbps.

And when a new standard amounts to "arrange the pins like this", it's not a very big deal.

[mistyhands]

What obligation do they have to convince you?

[fragmede]

None. Just like my obligation to buy one.