{"id":11403,"date":"2015-06-03T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2015-06-03T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:08:45","slug":"thunderbolt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/thunderbolt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolt 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2930555\/thunderbolts-future-on-the-mac-could-be-saved-by-the-usb-c-port.html\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2930555\/thunderbolts-future-on-the-mac-could-be-saved-by-the-usb-c-port.html\">\n<p>A Thunderbolt 3 port will look like a USB-C port. They&rsquo;re plug compatible. So if you plug in a USB-C device to a Thunderbolt 3 port, it should just work as you&rsquo;d expect. And older Thunderbolt devices can still be used with Thunderbolt 3 via an adapter.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s also the issue of driving 5K displays. Intel&rsquo;s announcements about Thunderbolt 3 mention that it supports DisplayPort 1.2, which can drive high-resolution displays, but doesn&rsquo;t appear to have enough bandwidth to drive a 5K display via a single connection. (It can definitely do it via two cables.) The new DisplayPort 1.3 specification, which is being finalized, is supposed to support 5K displays via a single cable. It would be silly if a brand-new technology like Thunderbolt 3 shipped without the ability to drive 5K displays via a single cable, but that might be the case. We&rsquo;ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&rsquo;s one other catch about Thunderbolt 3 adopting the USB-C connector: Room for confusion. You should be able to plug any USB-C device into a Thunderbolt 3 port without trouble. But if you&rsquo;ve got a computer (like the new MacBook) that supports USB-C but <em>not<\/em> Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt peripherals (indicated by the lightning-bolt Thunderbolt logo rather than the USB logo) just won&rsquo;t work (even though you can plug them in).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Commenters are saying that Thunderbolt 3 <em>does<\/em> support 5K displays via a single cable. I&rsquo;ve seen on mentions on Twitter of various other minor caveats, but overall it sounds great to me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell: A Thunderbolt 3 port will look like a USB-C port. They&rsquo;re plug compatible. So if you plug in a USB-C device to a Thunderbolt 3 port, it should just work as you&rsquo;d expect. And older Thunderbolt devices can still be used with Thunderbolt 3 via an adapter. [&#8230;] There&rsquo;s also the issue of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[839,30,201,1154],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-displayport","tag-mac","tag-thunderbolt","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11404,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}