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A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)

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altairprime 3y ago
This is a sponsored video from Lumafield, accompanying the article that HN discussed previously three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37929338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37929338 (218 comments)
- Bluescreenbuddy 3y ago
  Just about every article showing this xray stuff is a Lumafield ad essentially
  - altairprime 3y ago
    That’s fine, just repeating what’s in the description.
danielEM 3y ago
Bunch of guys justifying price of overpriced cable and comparing it with regular usb cable as it was apple to apple (see the pun here? ;-) ) claiming that they are advertising something else :-) Putting aside everything above - making an every day use cable cost 130USD is not an example of good engineering, it is example of very bad engineering.
- alright2565 3y ago
  IIRC this is not your standard USB cable. This is a 40Gbps cable used for connecting things like graphics cards.
  - guidedlight 3y ago
    Exactly, one Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable can drive 2x 4K monitors in a daisy chain configuration.
    - Rebelgecko 3y ago
      Years ago I was driving 2 4k monitors using a TB3 cable that cost maybe $20-$30, so this one kinda seems like overkill. Granted, those monitors were plugged into a TB dock separately instead of daisy-chained, but there was only one cable between my laptop and the dock so it seems like the bandwidth was already adequate?
      - elliottkember 3y ago
        How much did your TB dock cost?
        Rebelgecko 3y ago
        It's been a while so I don't remember exactly, but I'd guess in the $150-$250 range. Before the inevitable comparison to the $130 cable I should point out that the dock was for more than just connecting to displays (IIRC SD card reader, audio, and a shitload of USB-A and a handful of -C ports. And presumably the cable that came with the dock would work directly with daisychainable 4k monitors... Although the display stuff was confusing. At the time it was a pain in the ass to find a dock that explicitly saod it could drive multiple 4k monitors without having to fall back to 30hz
    - shiroiuma 3y ago
      I might be wrong, but I thought Thunderbolt 3|4 cables are not the same as USB cables at all, and the terms can't be used interchangeably. TB3/4 use the USB-C connector, but that's it.
  - danielEM 3y ago
    You didn't get my pun :) I do understand that this is 40Gbps cable :)

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This is a sponsored video from Lumafield, accompanying the article that HN discussed previously three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37929338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37929338 (218 comments)

Bluescreenbuddy 3y ago
Just about every article showing this xray stuff is a Lumafield ad essentially
- altairprime 3y ago
  That’s fine, just repeating what’s in the description.

danielEM 3y ago

Bunch of guys justifying price of overpriced cable and comparing it with regular usb cable as it was apple to apple (see the pun here? ;-) ) claiming that they are advertising something else :-) Putting aside everything above - making an every day use cable cost 130USD is not an example of good engineering, it is example of very bad engineering.

alright2565 3y ago
IIRC this is not your standard USB cable. This is a 40Gbps cable used for connecting things like graphics cards.
- guidedlight 3y ago
  Exactly, one Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable can drive 2x 4K monitors in a daisy chain configuration.
  - Rebelgecko 3y ago
    Years ago I was driving 2 4k monitors using a TB3 cable that cost maybe $20-$30, so this one kinda seems like overkill. Granted, those monitors were plugged into a TB dock separately instead of daisy-chained, but there was only one cable between my laptop and the dock so it seems like the bandwidth was already adequate?
    - elliottkember 3y ago
      How much did your TB dock cost?
      - Rebelgecko 3y ago
        It's been a while so I don't remember exactly, but I'd guess in the $150-$250 range. Before the inevitable comparison to the $130 cable I should point out that the dock was for more than just connecting to displays (IIRC SD card reader, audio, and a shitload of USB-A and a handful of -C ports. And presumably the cable that came with the dock would work directly with daisychainable 4k monitors... Although the display stuff was confusing. At the time it was a pain in the ass to find a dock that explicitly saod it could drive multiple 4k monitors without having to fall back to 30hz
  - shiroiuma 3y ago
    I might be wrong, but I thought Thunderbolt 3|4 cables are not the same as USB cables at all, and the terms can't be used interchangeably. TB3/4 use the USB-C connector, but that's it.
- danielEM 3y ago
  You didn't get my pun :) I do understand that this is 40Gbps cable :)