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Until some bright spark had the idea to make Thunderbolt 3 share a connector with USB-C. And then Apple (inter alia) released laptops that were either USB-C+Thu
by theodric 4y ago
Until some bright spark had the idea to make Thunderbolt 3 share a connector with USB-C. And then Apple (inter alia) released laptops that were either USB-C+Thunderbolt 3 -or- purely USB-C (12" MacBook), making life complicated for folks doing IT support in mixed environments.
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- lostlogin 4y agoAh, you too enjoy the dongle lifestyle. Apple seems to be moving things forward, where others still keep some seriously legacy options, but neither option is pain free.
- eigen 4y agohasn't this always happened with internal connectors? SATA rev 1 (1.5Gbps, 2003) used the same connector as SATA rev2 (3Gbps, 2004) & SATA rev 3 (6Gbps, 2009) so drives and motherboards plugged together and operated but at the slowest common speed between them. is USB-C somehow different that people expect Thunderbolt 3 (Dec 2015) using a connector introduced in Aug 2014 on a 12" Macbook announced in March 2015?
- izacus 4y agoNo, this was always an issue, even in times when you enjoyed yourself with incompatibilities between different RS-232 implementation, VGA cables, DVI digital/analogue mess, FireWire burning out ports and more. The world where a plug was enough to identify underlying protocol in 100% of never fail cases never existed. However, nostalgia deletes enough memory for us to whine about times that never existed ;)