{"id":1193889,"date":"2023-10-18T17:51:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T21:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193889"},"modified":"2023-10-18T17:51:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T21:51:52","slug":"apples-130-thunderbolt-4-cable-could-be-worth-it-as-seen-in-x-ray-ct-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193889","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s $130 Thunderbolt 4 cable could be worth it, as seen in X-ray CT scans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) Pro cable connector in its reinforced, grounded metal shell (left) and its single-piece crimped cable strain relief (right). (credit: Lumafield<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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When Apple finally made the move to USB-C<\/a>, it did so in a very Apple way. That includes the offering of a $130 Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) Pro cable<\/a>, one that’s actually $160 if you need the full 3 meters. Could one cable, an object whose job is to transfer power and data and be completely unnoticed, be worth that kind of cash?<\/p>\n

Lumafield, maker of manufacturing-minded industrial CT scanners, studied this question across three dimensions<\/a>. After scanning Apple’s top-of-the-line cable, a $10 Amazon Basics model<\/a>, and USB-C cables costing $5.59 and $3.89, Lumafield had no definitive answer other than “we buy cables that meet our needs” and that “there\u2019s plenty of room for clever engineering and efficient manufacturing” inside a seemingly defined spec like USB-C.<\/p>\n

But we can say that if your goal is to buy one cable that will hold up to abuse, work with the power and data speeds of today and a reasonably distant tomorrow, and remove cables from your list of things that might be the problem? Lumafield’s images show why Apple’s alpha-cable might just be worth it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) Pro cable connector in its reinforced, grounded metal shell (left) and its single-piece crimped cable strain relief (right). (credit: Lumafield) When Apple finally made the move to USB-C, it did so in a very … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1193889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}