I'm going to admit I haven't seen the show in about 9 years and don't remember what season you're referencing. 2nd season would be my best guess. 1st season was incredibly boring.Are you suggesting we get Tim a large turnip and a place in the country
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Apple Releases $49 Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter Alongside New MacBook Pro
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Season 3 "black adder the third"-Dish and dishonesty. Prince George is in jeopardy of being struck from the civil list because he is spending a fortune on socks. To maintain the status quo they (Prince George, Black Adder, and Baldrick) buy a rotten borough, to secure the election of an MP, they run Baldrick against Pitt the younger's brother... long story short the plan fails and the end up making baldrick a lord and he spends £10000 on a gigantic turnip, that he had to haggle the price.
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Believe it or not, you dont have to buy any extra adapter next year if you have 2016 MacBook Pro and iPhone 8. Everything will be wireless or type-c or Thunderbolt 4 or Type-D, who knows. Oh dont tell me you already got your iphone 7? lol.
I'm a little confused on this adapter with regards to the "bi-directional" statement. It states it can connect TB3 devices to a Mac with TB2 or TB... but I don't see how, as it's a USB-C plug at the end, not a TB/TB2 style. Wouldn't it need a male TB/TB2 end to plug into an older Mac?
Interesting. Not a use case for me but I'm always curious about this sort of thing.
These and a bunch of others retail in Asia for about a dollar a pop
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It would work where the Thunderbolt 3 device has a female USB-C port and the adapter would be attached to the device and a Thunderbolt 2 cable would go from the adapter to the Mac.
You are correct. I was looking at about nine Amazon tabs there and went with the wrong one. Thanks for the catch.
I was talking about something like this. Same price like you mentioned.
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Remember there's a chip in there, and it's not out of line with Apple's TB cables. Also considerably cheaper than StarTech's Thunderbolt to ThunderBolt3 adapter, $73 at B&H.
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While TB3 is exclusively delivered over USB-C, not all USB-C ports are TB3 enabled, and a perfect example of that is the 12" MacBook. Its single USB-C port is not TB3 enabled, nor USB3.1 Gen2.
The above $49 ThunderBolt3 to ThunderBolt adapter is a bi-directional device allowing one to hook up TB or TB2 devices to a TB3 host, or conversely, hook up TB3 devices to TB or TB2 ports, in all cases running at the lower speed of course. (TB and TB2 are backwards compatible.)
In your scenario you'll need a USB-C to USB adapter, and are limited to USB3.1 Gen1 (5Gb/s) for Target Disc mode file transfers from your old Mac to your 12" MacBook.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
An adapter … to allow Thunderbolt 3 to be used with Thunderbolt 2 accessories?
UNBELIEVABLE!
An adapter … to allow Thunderbolt 3 to be used with Thunderbolt 2 accessories?
UNBELIEVABLE!
It is not an adapter, it is a converter.
Like TB's active cables.
Not to mention that it always supports older versions of DisplayPort.
Thunderbolt is an expensive train wreck.
Believe me, these people think everything should be at monoprice prices.
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Really, the vision for all of USB Type C is to eventually only have one connector at all. It's never easy.
The Startech does provide bus power, what it does not provide is DisplayPort output (but if I remember well it does provide DisplayPort passthrough within TB).
So, 3 things to check about the Apple adapter.
Nothing says pro then a bunch of extra dongles sticking out from you MacBook pro. And in 3 years you buy another set, because apple removes more ports.
A pro machine should support older ports as well, since you don't replace that often. But then again, Jobs understood this, Cook doesn't have a clue how pro things work.
A pro machine should support older ports as well, since you don't replace that often. But then again, Jobs understood this, Cook doesn't have a clue how pro things work.
- Only at HDMI 1.4b, though.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/usb-type-c-to-hdmi-cable-specs/
- Link please? Haven't seen that.
- The key feature here is that it precisely can be used in both directions. It's actually a pretty exciting adaptor, I think. Does way more than the competition, costs half, and is more compact.
- Great post! Except for that last part. Target Disk Mode is only available over FireWire or Thunderbolt. The 12" MacBook doesn't support it at all.
https://www.amazon.de/Club-3D-4K60Hz-Aktiver-Adapter/dp/B0173IB9MO/
There are also mDP 1.2 and DP 1.2 versions.
I have one of each.
I also have simple mDP->DP and DP->mDP adapters.
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- Thanks heaps. I knew about the DP variants, but not the USB-C one.
I need to amend a post I made earlier in the day...
Now we just need an integrated cable rather than an male-female adaptor for at slightly more elegant solution.
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