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Yeah, but having Type-C ports with different capabilities is wildly confusing to users. Imagine that Apple had mixed Type-C ports. Imagine the number of support calls from people that says 'doesn't work' when they try to plug their Studio Display in an USB 2.0 Type-C port. Or when the Studio Display works because they plugged it into a port with USB3 and DP-Alt, because the downstream hub doesn't work, because you ne…
> Imagine that Apple had mixed Type-C ports. They actually do :) they don't all have the same capabilities. Some are Thunderbolt, some aren't. USB4 goes some way to addressing this concern though, since anything marked USB4 has to be fully-functional.
Not on the same Mac, as least for MacBooks (I haven't paid much attention to desktop Macs).