Yes it is time for this thread to die, The sub conversation being had should move to PM's.
This forum is in desperate need of active moderation, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find answers. I know the questions have been asked before, and answered before, but can never find the answer due to threads like this.
People reading these threads have to realize there are users ranging from wannabe all the way to Hollywood experts. I appreciate that. I also appreciate most of the experts have been really patient with the newbies...until they become stubborn and arrogant.
The upper class of professionals also have far different environments, from the wannabe's. You can't blame the wannabes Apple made them think it's acceptable to deliver professional content from a mobile device.
Anyhow, both arguments are valid. I wasted one of my high throughput PCIe slots on a decklink card, when all I need is a window to view fullscreen. I gladly would have chosen to pay some more money...even the cost of a Decklink card to get the additional feature. More often than not I could use that 4th monitor connected to my windows environment. Of course I'll probably now just put a DP to Hdmi cable off of one of my other monitors and just toggle as my decklink monitor has 3 inputs, I never thought of that before. Thanks to who ever suggested that, brilliant.....but I'd still rather have a 10Gbe card in that slot
Due to the market trends of thinner, lighter, and wimpier; the chances of ever seeing more than one TB3/USB3.1 on a consumer laptop are pretty slim. 3.1/TB3 per spec will not have hubs with more than one C port. The C port on said hub will not be full spec.