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Yeah, but having Type-C ports with different capabilities is wildly confusing to users. Imagine that Apple had mixed Type-C ports. Imagine the number of support
by microtonal 3y ago
Yeah, but having Type-C ports with different capabilities is wildly confusing to users. Imagine that Apple had mixed Type-C ports. Imagine the number of support calls from people that says 'doesn't work' when they try to plug their Studio Display in an USB 2.0 Type-C port. Or when the Studio Display works because they plugged it into a port with USB3 and DP-Alt, because the downstream hub doesn't work, because you need to hook it up with Thunderbolt.
In the end the only thing that is understandable to most users is when all the ports on a system provide the same capabilities (and probably Thunderbolt 4).
- arcticbull 3y ago> Imagine that Apple had mixed Type-C ports. They actually do :) they don't all have the same capabilities. Some are Thunderbolt, some aren't. USB4 goes some way to addressing this concern though, since anything marked USB4 has to be fully-functional.
- microtonal 3y agoNot on the same Mac, as least for MacBooks (I haven't paid much attention to desktop Macs).