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Why do they keep making the cables shorter? 0.8m seems very impractical for applications like charging a phone.
by Thomaschaaf 7y ago
Why do they keep making the cables shorter? 0.8m seems very impractical for applications like charging a phone.
- colejohnson66 7y agoAttenuation?
- eigenloss 7y agono, dispersion.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoYou wouldn't need the highest bandwidth cable just to charge (although it would work), you'd need it for external GPUs or large disk arrays.
- sohkamyung 7y agoThe reason for that is stated in the post: > Gen 1 cables can be 2M long, while Gen 3 cables can be 0.8m. This is just a practical consequence of physics and signal integrity when it comes to passive cables.