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The article is detailing a device that has dual protocol support: TB and USB. It prefers TB in one case and USB in another. I don't see any ambiguity here: it g
by vetinari 3y ago
The article is detailing a device that has dual protocol support: TB and USB. It prefers TB in one case and USB in another. I don't see any ambiguity here: it goes down the list: USB 4, TB, USB 3.1. The Intel macs are missing USB 4.
- ajross 3y ago> [big list of specifics about what works where] So, you agree that the specification landscape is a soup of incompatible variants which make practical interoperability mostly a crap shoot for consumers. You just don't think that's a problem?
- CharlesW 3y agoI believe he's responding to the characterization of the drive as a "Thunderbolt device". As the article and @vetinari note, the drive supports both Thunderbolt and USB. It's sort of a given that that performance would be different based on which "mode" it's in. One related complication of sharing a physical standard is that all Thunderbolt 4 cables work for USB 4, but the reverse isn't true. Ideally that would not be the case, but people want their cheap USB cables.
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