Apple and Intel early last year announced Thunderbolt, a high-speed interconnect that much like USB connects host computers to peripherals such as external storage devices or monitors. Apple quickly ...

The mighty Thunderbolt port is one of the quintessential connectivity options for many modern laptops, including most of the newer MacBooks. For instance, it's a key way that high-end monitors connect ...

The Framework Laptop is designed to be modular, repairable, and upgradeable. The battery, ports, display, and even the motherboard are user replaceable. And thanks to a modular port system, you can ...

My desktop workstation is powered by a Mac Mini M4, but it doesn't offer enough ports for my needs. A single Thunderbolt 4 ...

Times are tough for Intel's high-speed port, as even loyal ally Apple offers only USB-C on its new iPad Pro. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

The Thunderbolt 3 connection is fantastic. It offers advantages over vanilla USB-C in nearly every way. The problem? For years, it’s been a technology reserved for expensive PCs only. But the tide has ...

With home and hybrid working more prevalent than ever, many people are looking for sleek solutions to common problems. The recently-released Microsoft Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock makes your work or ...

Working from home likely means you're working on some form of laptop or tablet, and if it was made in the last couple of years, one thing's for sure: It doesn't have near enough ports to connect all ...

The new Plugable TBT3-UDZ dock can run two 4K monitors and has USB 3.0 10Gbps and Thunderbolt 40Gbps ports. It even included gigabit Ethernet and memory card slots. Now so many of us are having to ...

The port of choice for Windows PC makers remains USB 3.0, which has a wide installed base and is backward compatible with USB 2.0. But Thunderbolt is twice as fast as USB 3.0 with data transfer speeds ...