Meaning that depending on the type of device connected to it, every Thunderbolt 3 port will also work as a USB-C port and every Thunderbolt 3 cable will work as a USB-C cable and vice versa (as long as you get a qualitative USB-C cable.) Last year Intel announced that Thunderbolt 3 would use the same port type as USB-C. +36 More One port, one cable for everything Which means, buying a MacBook Pro right now is to invest in a variety of adapters for all your legacy devices.īut before we delve too deeply into the cons, let's take a closer look at the pros of this decision. On the other hand, we're still living in a present where port standards like HDMI, the SD card slot, and especially regular old USB-A ports - those rectangular ones that have been around for 20 years or so - are still widely used by the vast majority of devices. Thunderbolt 3 is extremely fast and versatile and really is the connection port of the future. Depending on which model you choose, you get two or four of the tiny ports, all of which offer the Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth and connectivity.Īpple's full-on embrace of Thunderbolt 3 is great. But aside from that old-fashioned 3.5mm jack, the only connector you'll find on Apple's latest and greatest laptops is USB-C. Ironically, after pulling the headphone jack from its iPhone 7, Apple left it in its new laptops. That's the world that Apple's new MacBook Pros are coming into. And they all probably fit into a different-shaped port. In the meantime: you've got cables and wires. Even your charging cable may go away, when and if we ever get a single wireless charging standard. Speeds will be so fast - 5G and WiGig - and the chipsets so cheap and plentiful that everything from your coffee maker to your garage door opener will have them embedded by default. Someday we'll live in a truly wireless future, where everything is interconnected.
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