Why does Apple Love Thunderbolt Ports so Much?

Whether you are using it for an eGPU and machine learning, gaming, or for external monitors… Living without one may become painful.

Jeremy DiBattista
Towards Data Science
4 min readNov 25, 2020

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Photo by Sabri Tuzcu on Unsplash

The Thunderbolt 3 was crowned as groundbreaking for computers. So much so that Apple decided to make it every single port on newer MacBooks (2016+) up until recently…

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