I like how they can put more memory and a full video card in the steam deck, but on the Mac Apple sees an SSD and goes: Help, that scares me.,(reply>), @Victor Titov Well that's the thing. The external SSDs I'm talking about are already running Thunderbolt 4. They have an M.2 stick inside them. They are the fastest external drive setups you can possibly get and they still only top out at 2800MBs. At those speeds, at those prices, it's just insulting.<br><br>Basically, if you can't connect an M.2 drive directly to the motherboard itself, it's gonna be slow. There's no avoiding it. Trust me, they've been trying.,(reply>), @Pirojf Mifhghek oh, i didn't know that nvidia problem part. And not sure what's up with thunderbolt ssd prices. Seems like converters thunderbolt &lt;-&gt; m.2 exist and have reasonable cost.<br><br>Yes yes, i know about that internal ssd problem of macbooks. For me, the most sucky part about it is that i can't pull it out to read data off of it in case the macbook is somehow dead. And it's one of the reasons i don't own any macbooks yet.,(reply>), ​@Victor Titov You can connect a thunderbolt cable to an external drive, but you're gonna be capped at SATA speeds unless you dump ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY on an external SSD. No joke, those things are stupid-expensive and have remained expensive for a while. I mean, we're talking $500-800 for a 2TB external that can only run 1100-2800MBs. At those speeds you could grab your average 2TB <i>PCIe 3.0</i> M.2 off the rack and it will give you the exact same performance for around $160. It also won't dangle off the side of your four thousand dollar computer either. It doesn't compare to the typical PCIe 4.0 M.2 drives running anywhere between 5000-7000MBs. So all those performance gains you might have received from the Mac Studio using their fast flash module setup are gonna go in the toilet the moment you need to use a bigger drive. You will be bottlenecked back to the days of PCIe 3.0. Of course you <i>could</i> just delete everything off of the Mac's internal storage so you can use the faster data transfer there, but you're basically doing the same task twice and killing the flash modules with all those rewrites.<br><br>The only thing Thunderbolt 4.0 would otherwise help with is eGPU support, buuuuuuuut... yeah, no dice. Macs will recognize an eGPU as a device. They can speak the language of the eGPU, but there are no drivers. Apple explicitly doesn't want to make the drivers available. Unless Apple stops feuding with NVIDIA, it's unlikely that this stance will ever change.,(reply>), I mean it's not exactly supported in any way. At the very least it doesn't lock you out from doing it arbitrarily like the Mac Studio does.,(reply>), @Victor Titov Still slower, might aswell get a harddrive if anyone would do that.