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Why Your Next Notebook Should Have A USB4 Or Thunderbolt 4 Port

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USB4 is the successor to USB 3.2. More specifically, it comes in four flavours, but the ones that will matter most to consumers are USB4 20Gbps and USB4 40Gbps, with the ‘Gbps’ suffixes referring to the maximum data throughput.

The most salient part about USB4 as a whole, however, is that it’s based on the Thunderbolt 3 protocol, a move possible

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