A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)

Bunch of guys justifying price of overpriced cable and comparing it with regular usb cable as it was apple to apple (see the pun here? ;-) ) claiming that they are advertising something else :-)

Putting aside everything above - making an every day use cable cost 130USD is not an example of good engineering, it is example of very bad engineering.

Re: A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)

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Post by Bluescreenbuddy » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:33 PM UTC

altairprime wrote: post #3

This is a sponsored video from Lumafield, accompanying the article that HN discussed previously three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37929338 (218 comments)

Just about every article showing this xray stuff is a Lumafield ad essentially

Re: A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)

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Post by alright2565 » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:35 PM UTC

danielEM wrote: post #4

Bunch of guys justifying price of overpriced cable and comparing it with regular usb cable as it was apple to apple (see the pun here? ;-) ) claiming that they are advertising something else :-) Putting aside everything above - making an every day use cable cost 130USD is not an example of good engineering, it is example of very bad engineering.

IIRC this is not your standard USB cable. This is a 40Gbps cable used for connecting things like graphics cards.

Re: A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)

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Post by guidedlight » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 10:12 PM UTC

alright2565 wrote: post #6

danielEM wrote: post #4

Bunch of guys justifying price of overpriced cable and comparing it with regular usb cable as it was apple to apple (see the pun here? ;-) ) claiming that they are advertising something else :-) Putting aside everything above - making an every day use cable cost 130USD is not an example of good engineering, it is example of very bad engineering.

IIRC this is not your standard USB cable. This is a 40Gbps cable used for connecting things like graphics cards.

Exactly, one Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable can drive 2x 4K monitors in a daisy chain configuration.

Re: A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)

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Post by Rebelgecko » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 10:18 PM UTC

guidedlight wrote: post #7

alright2565 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC this is not your standard USB cable. This is a 40Gbps cable used for connecting things like graphics cards.

Exactly, one Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable can drive 2x 4K monitors in a daisy chain configuration.

Years ago I was driving 2 4k monitors using a TB3 cable that cost maybe $20-$30, so this one kinda seems like overkill. Granted, those monitors were plugged into a TB dock separately instead of daisy-chained, but there was only one cable between my laptop and the dock so it seems like the bandwidth was already adequate?

Re: A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)

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Post by elliottkember » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 10:21 PM UTC

Rebelgecko wrote: post #8

guidedlight wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, one Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable can drive 2x 4K monitors in a daisy chain configuration.

Years ago I was driving 2 4k monitors using a TB3 cable that cost maybe $20-$30, so this one kinda seems like overkill. Granted, those monitors were plugged into a TB dock separately instead of daisy-chained, but there was only one cable between my laptop and the dock so it seems like the bandwidth was already adequate?

How much did your TB dock cost?

Re: A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)

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Post by danielEM » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 10:33 PM UTC

alright2565 wrote: post #6

danielEM wrote: post #4

Bunch of guys justifying price of overpriced cable and comparing it with regular usb cable as it was apple to apple (see the pun here? ;-) ) claiming that they are advertising something else :-) Putting aside everything above - making an every day use cable cost 130USD is not an example of good engineering, it is example of very bad engineering.

IIRC this is not your standard USB cable. This is a 40Gbps cable used for connecting things like graphics cards.

You didn't get my pun :) I do understand that this is 40Gbps cable :)