Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 16 submissions in the queue.

Submission Preview

No link to story available

Whats the difference between a $5 and a $129 USB cable?

Accepted submission by Snotnose at 2023-10-21 22:51:34
Hardware

Please ignore my earlier (10 minutes ago) submission, I found a better link. Umm, I also forgot the link to the story......

Apple’s new iPhone 15 marks a disruptive departure from previous models. The 11-year reign of the Lightning cable is over, and the USB-C era has begun — leaving us wondering what sets one charger apart from another.

Does Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 cable really warrant its $129 price tag? Or does a $5 cable get the job done just as well? We’ve used our Neptune industrial X-ray CT scanner to uncover the hidden engineering differences between them.

This article [lumafield.com] explains some of the confusion around USB-C.


Original Submission