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An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf]
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3mo agoI’ll go ahead and post the obligatory comment about how it’s a bit ridiculous that they didn’t include in the spec an easy way to quickly visually identify the capabilities of the cable (data vs power etc). Single biggest flaw of the spec in my opinion
- OymInIRole 3mo ago[dead]
- zlsa 3mo agonot that it really solves your problem, but any compliant USB-C to USB-C cable is required to support at least 60W of power and USB 2.0 speeds. Unfortunately, beyond that it gets pretty bad and spotty for a casual user. I make sure to only buy reputable cables that support 240W (this isn't an expensive feature: it just means the cable supports 20V, effectively), and I have only two cables that support the full Thunderbolt data rate. But those are effectively tethered to my Thunderbolt dock and I don't use them generically.
- cutterl6 3mo agoIt feels like there is enough consumer frustration and confusion that this has been changing. A standardised mandatory marking in the spec would have been nice but it has been no problem for me to find cables with clearly-printed power and bandwidth ratings recently. History will consider this a minor teething problem.
- gregsadetsky 3mo agoDiscussed 11 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862165 (81 comments)
- RijilV 3mo agoFind https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html to be quicker and easier to understand (posted a month or so ago)