[HN Gopher] A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)
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       A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)
        
       Author : johnnyballgame
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2024-01-25 19:25 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
        
       | altairprime wrote:
       | 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)
        
         | Bluescreenbuddy wrote:
         | Just about every article showing this xray stuff is a Lumafield
         | ad essentially
        
       | danielEM wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | alright2565 wrote:
         | IIRC this is not your standard USB cable. This is a 40Gbps
         | cable used for connecting things like graphics cards.
        
           | guidedlight wrote:
           | Exactly, one Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable can drive 2x 4K
           | monitors in a daisy chain configuration.
        
             | Rebelgecko wrote:
             | 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?
        
               | elliottkember wrote:
               | How much did your TB dock cost?
        
           | danielEM wrote:
           | You didn't get my pun :) I do understand that this is 40Gbps
           | cable :)
        
           | ianburrell wrote:
           | It is also long, the 6ft one is $129 and the 10ft one is
           | $159. Most USB4 cables are below 3ft and get expensive as
           | they get longer. It is nice that there are longer ones cause
           | longer USB3 cables were rare.
           | 
           | Apple's are twice as expensive as other manufacturers.
        
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