If you happen to be in the market for a brand new PC, you might be confused to see the only port options on offer are either USB-C or Thunderbolt, the latter of which is swiftly becoming an industry ...

Optical cables for Thunderbolt ports that enable faster data transfers over longer distances on computers such as Apple’s Macintosh will be available later this year, Intel said Monday. Thunderbolt, ...

For more than a year Intel has talked about graduating from copper wires to fiber optics for Thunderbolt ports on Apple’s Mac computers, and Sumitomo Electric Industries has became one of the first ...

Stream Transport (MST) on macOS, but with the new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, that limitation matters far less. For the first ...

The new optical cables could be up to 10 times as long as the original Thunderbolt cables, and that's not the only difference. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Optical cables that connect peripherals to Thunderbolt 2 ports in Apple Macs are getting longer, but also more expensive. Other World Computing on Friday started selling a 30-meter Thunderbolt 2 ...

The Thunderbolt 3 standard has been available for roughly four years now, but cable lengths have so far generally been limited to a couple of meters due to signal degradation over long distances of ...

Intel’s Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect has been shipping for over a year now, and new vendors have been announcing products compatible with the standard ever since. One sticking point, however, ...

USB continues to be a glorious mess, and Thunderbolt remains the gold standard ...

The speed available from Apple's Thunderbolt I/O technology is amazing. But good luck finding a cable when you really need one. How do you back up a souped-up MacBook Pro with two drives inside?

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...