Apple's new Thunderbolt 4 USB-C cable costs a staggering $130, more than ten times the price of a reliable generic USB-C cable readily available elsewhere. W...

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.

  • hazyPixels@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • porkchop_d_clown@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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.

  • casperghst42@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • porkchop_d_clown@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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!

      • casperghst42@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        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.

  • EngineeringDesserts@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.