Thunderbolt 3 was announced in 2015 and arrived to consumers in Apple's 2016 MacBook Pros. This allowed for a newer and more versatile cable spec to be added without changing or adding ports to the ...

USB has been around for decades, and the sheer number of USB and Thunderbolt versions in 2025 can be bewildering. Here's what you need to know about USB 3, USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and ...

It doesn’t matter if you’re using a new MacBook Pro with Apple’s M1 chip or a Mac Mini from a few years back — you’ll need a Thunderbolt 3 dock to give your computer the connectivity it deserves. A ...

Macworld explains the evolution from Thunderbolt 3 to 5, highlighting that Thunderbolt 5 doubles bandwidth to 80Gbps and supports DisplayPort 2.1 for 10K displays. Apple’s new M4/M5 Pro and Max Macs ...

Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C are frequently mentioned in the same breath, making understanding the difference between the two quite challenging for the average person. Both are hardware connection ...

Thunderbolt is a new technology built to support high frame rate and resolution displays through a single port. It transfers data faster than your normal USB-C, allowing the user to connect different ...

I could spoil this entire article and tell you right off the bat which high-speed bus protocol you should be looking at for you current and future external storage needs… But where’s the fun in that?

More powerful than a simple USB-C dock, the CalDigit TS3 Plus features the superior (but otherwise physically indistinguishable) 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 connectors that can run two external displays in ...

The Thunderbolt 3 standard has been available for roughly four years now, but cable lengths have so far generally been limited to a couple of meters due to signal degradation over long distances of ...

Now that the upcoming USB4 spec promises to “adopt the Thunderbolt 3 protocol,” some hope it means an end to our international nightmare of USB confusion. You know, the one where there are: Two ...