Magma hopes to get you to use your Thunderbolt port with its upcoming, newly teased ExpressBox 3T. The box contains slots for three PCIe cards side-by-side for video capture, media transcoding, audio processing and fast data storage. The card lets even a MacBook Air​ use PCIe cards with relatively little slowdown over the 10Gbps symmetric connection.
The ExpressBox 3T has three PCIe 2.0 expansion slots in an external chassis along with an internal 220W power supply. Because there are no auxiliary power connectors, installing a video card that requires more power isn’t possible.
Magma plans for ExpressBox 3T preorder starting this fall, priced at under $1,000.
