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Dave
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
 
2021-01-07, 16:42

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Originally Posted by PB PM View Post
USB4 is not thunderbolt, and there are multiple versions, just like 3.x. Yeah it's just USB3 renamed to 4, with one version supporting thunderbolt 3 tech. They should have just left all the older stuff on USB3.x and kept USB4 for the Thunderbolt 3 like stuff, so stupid.
Thunderbolt 4 is USB 4 + Thunderbolt 3, though. The "full fat" USB 4, I mean, not some subset of it.

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Originally Posted by PB PM View Post
It's not really thunderbolt though, because it is using copper wire, not fiber.
As far as decades-old decisions go, I'm still kinda upset that the industry didn't move in that direction.

When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream.
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