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#USB 3.0 MAC THUNDERBOLT PRO#
Having more than one cable going to your MacBook Pro is criminal, amirite?įor RAIDs, external HDDs and SSDs, video capture and playback devices, and external PCIe expansions Thunderbolt is the better option. You could use a USB hub, but you'd need three of them and three USB 3.0 ports to equal the potential of a single Thunderbolt port. You're connecting several devices to your workstation at once, Thunderbolt's ability to chain several devices together using a single port is very nice.There are also external video capture devices that take advantage of Thunderbolts superior speed. For example, if you plan on editing video off an external RAID, or if you need to connect several monitors to your laptop, the 10Gbps transfer speed will be nice. You have a Thunderbolt capable workstation and you need superior transfer speed (as in, if you're a video editor working with high bit-rate footage).Go with Thunderbolt if any of the following are true:
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Primarily because they don't exist, but also because they just don't need the transfer speed. Similarly, I doubt I'd ever buy a Thunderbolt printer, or headset. For example, don't buy a Thunderbolt mouse (not that one exists). The device in question doesn't require fast transfer speeds.There is no Thunderbolt equivalent device.Your computer doesn't support Thunderbolt.Chose USB 3.0 if any of the following are true: Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 is available on all new Apple workstations (except the MacPro-ugh), and just about all new PCs have USB 3.0, but it's pretty rare to find Thunderbolt on a new PC.Thunderbolt is new technology, so the only devices it's backwards compatible with are those that use Mini DisplayPort (the predecesor to Thunderbolt, used only for display devices). That doesn't mean your old USB stick from 2003 will transfer at 4.8Gbps, but it will fit in the port and it'll work at normal speed. USB 3.0 ports are backwards compatible with all USB devices.In fact, you can buy one for less than the cost of a single thunderbolt cable. In order to do something similar with USB 3.0, a user would have to purchase a USB 3.0 hub. Several Thunderbolt devices can be chained together, meaning several devices can connect to a single thunderbolt port.While DisplayLink has technology that will allow user to output a display signal to a monitor via USB 3.0, doing so requires additional hardware.
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Out of the box, USB 3.0 doesn't support this.