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To make it even more fun, Thunderbolt 3 looks like USB-C and Thunderbolt 2 looks like Mini DisplayPort. What do you mean? Thunderbolt 3 uses USB-C connectors.
by danieldk 5y ago
To make it even more fun, Thunderbolt 3 looks like USB-C and Thunderbolt 2 looks like Mini DisplayPort.
What do you mean? Thunderbolt 3 uses USB-C connectors. And you can also use a Thunderbolt 3 cable as a USB 3.1 Gen2/DP-Alt/PD cable.
The big annoyance is that it doesn't work the other way around. There are even USB-C cables that only carry USB 2.0 and do not have the SuperSpeed lanes. So, they are not only worthless for Thunderbolt 3, but also for getting good tranfer rates using newer USB revisions. Worst of all is that there is no cable marking system.
- bombcar 5y agoExactly - I have no easy way to tell if something is "USB USB-C" or "TB3 or TB4 USB-C" especially on the adapters. It's frustrating getting everything hooked up.
- citrusybread 5y agoit's hilarious you know. for almost 20 years we had this perfect "it sits it fits" approach to usb, now here we are, four standards three cables one connector. easily avoided by just keeping a different connector for each spec...
- bombcar 5y agoWe even had USB 3.0 type B (a connector that take two different kinds of USB type B) - but we've moved on from that. It's understandable that if you have a interface that is compatible with another (Thunderbolt 3 can run USB 3.2) that the connector is the same, but it's frustrating. At least usually you'll get something that kinda works.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThe USB-C connector isn't for USB3. It's for any version of USB. It's perfectly valid to have a 1.1 12Mbit HID using the USB-C connector.
- danieldk 5y agoI didn’t say that. I even mentioned cables that only carry USB < 3.