For high-performance TVs and monitors, there are two main cable types that you need to know about: HDMI and DisplayPort.
Apple’s Thunderbolt cables aren’t something we usually recommend because they’re just so expensive, but they’re hard to pass up when they’re on sale. Target has Apple’s 1m Thunderbolt ...
So read on to find out all about Thunderbolt vs USB ports and cables. USB (or Universal Serial Bus) is an electronics ...
In an investigation for Ars Technica, Chris Foresman explores why Thunderbolt cables, more than a year after Thunderbolt debuted, remain at the expensive $50 and greater price range. Foresman dug into ...
After many, many years of competing I/O standards, the introduction of USB (short for Universal Serial Bus) in the late '90s was welcome. USB has dominated for decades as a fast, reliable ...
There are now some cables that meet the current USB4 Version 2.0 standard, as well as the related Thunderbolt 5, and are guaranteed to transmit 80 gigabits per second and direction. However ...
Executives at DisplayLink and Synaptics, its parent company, argue that DisplayLink can do more with less, via compression, than Thunderbolt can. But even they agree that the cable between devices ...
The only area where it doesn’t excel is in Thunderbolt performance, which is limited to 20Gbps. That’s not a ding in our book because that’s the tradeoff of a 6-foot cable. To hit 40Gbps ...
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 ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- June 11, 2012-- Ensphere Solutions is pleased to report the first Thunderbolt™ active optical cables (AOC) are now entering the market using the Ensphere ESI-XVR10100 optical ...