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Are there any motherboards with native Thunderbolt 3, especially in the Custom Mac Pro builds?
There are a few boards with Thunderbolt 3 including the board I have- the Gigabyte Z170X-UD5-TH and the ASUS Z170 Premium however support hasn't been fully tested. There are reports of Thunderbolt 3 working successfully without hotswap support. Bottom line, with Thunderbolt 2 and 3 it is necessary to install Windows Thunderbolt drivers to 'wake up' the Thunderbolt chip on the board. After that, if using Thunderbolt Legacy mode it will work in OS X.
Wait, so Thunderbolt 2 works w/ wake up from sleep + hotswap? Also, don't the Macbook's have Thunderbolt 3/USB-C? I would think that means there would be support... or are they just too new?
No- neither TH1, TH2, or TH3 works with hotswap or wake from sleep. MacBooks only have USB-C, not Thunderbolt 3.