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Title: How to use any Thunderbolt device on any Thunderbolt Mac—and we mean any Post by: HCK on March 15, 2020, 04:05:13 pm How to use any Thunderbolt device on any Thunderbolt Mac—and we mean any
<article> <section class="page"> <p>When Thunderbolt 3 arrived, it was touted as not only twice as fast as previous generations, but completely backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 1 and 2. Signal-wise, that’s perfectly true. Physically, err... Thunderbolt 3 ditched the previous generation’s mini-DisplayPort connector for the slimmer, trimmer, orientation-agnostic USB Type-C port.</p><p>That was a nice move actually, but while adapters for the still plentiful Thunderbolt 2 Macs and perhipherals arrived in short order, they didn’t support bus-power-only devices like all those sexy Thunderbolt portable SSDs (https://www.macworld.com/article/3298577/samsung-portable-ssd-x5-review-wickedly-fast-portable-thunderbolt-3-storage.html) I review for Macworld. Bummer.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3530129/how-to-use-any-thunderbolt-device-on-any-thunderbolt-macand-we-mean-any.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How to use any Thunderbolt device on any Thunderbolt Mac—and we mean any (https://www.macworld.com/article/3530129/how-to-use-any-thunderbolt-device-on-any-thunderbolt-macand-we-mean-any.html#tk.rss_all) |