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Tb4 magnetic connector ? (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago by alci@jlai.lu to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone have any feedback on using a magnetic USBC connector with a thunderbolt 4 docking station ? Any good reference ?

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[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much all magnetic usb-c connectors are power-only. If they have tx/Rx at all, not only would I not expect the connector to handle the loads associated with USB-PD, but I they straight up won't have the connectivity required for high speed thunderbolt.

[–] alci@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Hummm.... That's sad. I'm afraid my laptop will die by.its tb port...