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    How the Mac can help untangle the USB-C cable conundrum

    Mar 11, 2022 5 minutes
    Glenn Fleishman reports

    Despite guidelines for labelling set A cable with a USB-C plug at one or both ends often reveals little about what it’s capable of doing. by the USB-IF (the USB trade group) and Intel’s Thunderbolt division, you can wind up with multiple USB and Thunderbolt cables and adapters without a great idea of what they do.

    USB 2.0 and 3.0’s Type-A connector and Thunderbolt 1 and 2’s Mini DisplayPort-like plug offered fewer options. The biggest difference was between USB 2.0 and 3.0 – but you could quickly tell if your hard drive was constrained to the 480Mb/s speed of USB 2 or operating under the higher 5Gb/s overhead of 3.0.

    But with USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 (and now Thunderbolt/USB 4), it’s more confusing since they use the same connector. Just look at the following illustration about USB-C options created by Intel to inspire positive feelings about Thunderbolt and

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