USB’s counterpart, Thunderbolt, now also uses the USB-C connector and is a superset that includes USB 3.1, DisplayPort 1.2, PCI Express Gen 3, and the Thunderbolt specs.

USB-C ports on the new MacBook Pros all serve as both USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports (supporting up to 10 Gbps) and as high performance Thunderbolt 3 interfaces, and can support massive resolution external ...

Even if he doesn’t have USB 3.0, you can still access your data via USB 2.0. That’s not the case with Thunderbolt, which is extremely rare even on the Macintosh platform, where it’s been ...

But I've also found with USB 2.0 that more than four ports are less reliable, which may be the issue with the seven-port USB 3.0 as well. There are no Thunderbolt hubs; instead, Thunderbolt daisy ...

With a Thunderbolt 3 cable plugged into a Thunderbolt 3 port, which uses a USB-C port connector, users can see speeds of up to 40Gbps - a significant step up from USB 2.0's 480Mbps and Thunderbolt ...

If you’re familiar with Thunderbolt 3 then you’ll already know a lot of the specs of USB 4. It will still be able to deliver up to 100W of power, and has enough data throughput for the use of ...

The new MacBook Pro laptops are the first Macs with Thunderbolt 3, a standard that uses the USB-C plug style and retains USB compatibility. But what’s most interesting about Thunderbolt 3 is how it ...

Introduction OWC ‘s Drive Dock with Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.1 isn’t the cheapest docking solution on the market, but it does also bring more features than the average drive dock. We get a dual ...

In addition to the new connector, Thunderbolt 3 now also supports USB 3.1 (i.e. Gen 2, up to 10Gbps), and the Thunderbolt transport layer sees its max bandwidth doubled from 20Gbps to 40Gbps (bi ...

USB 3.1-only cables cost about half as much as passive Thunderbolt 3 cables. It seems unlikely that you would intentionally buy an expensive active Thunderbolt 3 cable to use with a USB 3.1-only drive ...

Thunderbolt 3 offers more than just port convenience, however. It'll support a 40 Gbps connection over Thunderbolt, which is double the speed of Thunderbolt 2, 10 Gbps USB 3.1 and DisplayPort 1.2.

USB 3.1 generation 2 is twice as fast as USB 3.0. The physical connector associated with USB 3.1, USB-C, is symmetrical across the horizontal axis, so no cable end-flipping is necessary to plug in ...