This is the extremely fascinating to me. The imaging used to peek inside this cables and the engineering/fabrication of these cables (or are they computers?) is absolutely wild.
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That is not a USB-C cable. The Apple cable is Thunderbolt.
Yes. Yes it is a usb-c cable. Don’t confuse people.
I’d rather see them compare the Apple cable to a similar Thunderbolt cable from another reputable manufacturer than the cheapest USB-C cable they could find on Amazon.
The main reason Apple’s cable is so expensive is because it is so long.
It’s fairly easy to make a reliable TB4 cable that’s only 1 foot long, making one that’s 6 feet long requires some fairly fancy noise-cancelling within the cable itself.
This is why a reliable 3-meter Ethernet 400 cable can cost you well over $1000 dollars.
I do like the CT scan of the Apple TB4 cable, but then they go off an compare it to an Amazon basic USB-C cable … wtf.
I’d rather see them compare it to an CalDigit TB4 cable, it is the same length, but it is 70$ cheaper than the Apple one.
But that would probably have been too easy.
I do like his YT channel, but this is a bit too cheesy.
Ikr. I can get a same cable with the same spec on paper for $20 equivalent.
Wow. I thought you were comparing the Apple cable with a shorter cable so I looked it up and you’re right. I’d be very curious to see what the Caldigit cable is like inside!
Actually any active TB4 cable would be interesting, but the CalDigit is interesting as it is also 2 meters, and it is also active. And 70$ cheaper.
Because it’s a 2m Thunderbolt 4 cable and not just a 1m USB-C(2.0) charge cable.
It’s more like “Wi-Fi” as an analogy.
Wi-Fi means a wireless network connection (801.11 of some sort).
Not all Wi-Fi hardware on either end is the same. Some connections have significantly enhanced capabilities. It’s more expensive to have that enhanced capability, and sometimes it’s a mystery to an end user if it’s available or not.
Why would you buy apples cables anyway? Apples cables have always been trash, and you can get the same for £25: