Some time ago, Apple's 145 yuan screen wipe cloth was on the Internet hot search, and many netizens complained that Apple charged an "IQ tax", but in the face of Apple's high-end attributes, the screen wipe cloth is far from its upper limit, and the connection line of 949 yuan is understood. A cable that costs up to 949 yuan. Netizens expressed shock: "A connecting wire sells for nearly a thousand yuan, is it made of gold?" ”
Apple connection line selling high price is not a day or two, which naturally has the premium of the Apple brand, but Apple's strict requirements for wire are also world-famous, so the price is higher everyone will recognize, it is really not ok for everyone to buy MFi Apple certified wire, generally will be much cheaper. Most of the time Apple's cable price is more than 100 yuan, such as a lightning interface to USB original cable, Apple has to sell 145 yuan, put outside an MFi charging cable is estimated to be dozens of yuan.
But today Apple released a 1.8-meter cable called "Thunderbolt 4 Pro", priced at up to 949 yuan, in addition, there is a 3-meter-long Thunderbolt 4 Pro line on the road, the price is more than 1,000 yuan, reaching 1169 yuan. If nothing else, this has refreshed the highest price of wire products on Apple's official website. This really makes me and other poor people wonder, is this wire using unknown black technology, or is this wire made of pure gold? If I hadn't really thought that a 1.8-meter wire rod could sell for such an expensive price!
Of course, in addition to the price of spitting, the name of this wire is estimated to make many people feel a little confused - what is ThunderClap? It's not Apple's pot, it's Intel's problem. Some time ago Intel did not release the Thunderbolt 4 protocol, this is our common name, but Intel officials may feel that this common name is indeed a bit vulgar, so very early on the official Chinese name of Thunderbolt set to "Thunderbolt", so Apple's official website This Thunderbolt 4Pro connection line is actually the thunderbolt 4 connection line.
Speaking of thunderbolt interface, in addition to some notebooks using Intel processors, the most used in the civilian industry is Apple, not only Apple's notebook has a thunderbolt interface, Apple's all-in-one machine will also design this interface. Therefore, it is also very normal for Apple to sell the latest Raiden 3 protocol connection line on its own official website. Just this price, it can only make people hehe...
So is the apple this thread work very well? From a practical point of view, it is indeed good, the whole thread is 1.8 meters long, and there is a black weave on the outside, which is very high-grade at first glance. However, if you look at Jingdong Taobao, what network cable, DP line, HDMI line, the use of woven design products do not have ten thousand or eight thousand, but also a few tens of yuan price, so this is obviously not an expensive reason!
Obviously, the Thunderbolt 4Pro cable is not an ordinary USBType-C data cable, note that the Thunderbolt 4Pro is a cable, not a charging cable.
Thunderbolt 4, known in English as Thunderbolt 4, is a connection interface developed by Intel that integrates PCI Express data transmission and DisplayPort display technology to transmit both data and video signals. Up to 40Gbps transfer rate, compatible with 10Gbps rate supporting USB3.1, supporting DP video output, power supply up to 100W, supporting Raiden 4 and Type-C devices... Do you feel that these performance characteristics are eye-catching?
Simply put, it is this kind of data cable that can make transmission faster and charging faster. For example, it takes less than 1 minute to transfer 20,000 photos with a Thunderbolt 4Pro cable. Transmit a 10-hour HD video in less than a minute. Such a speed is really fragrant.
You will find that the Thunderbolt 4 data cable is actually not a very popular thing, in fact, ordinary users generally do not need to use this connection line, that is to say, most of you are not the target user of this line. There are not many brands that really sell the complete 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4 cable, and although the price of these brands is not as high as Apple, it is not cheap, and even the domestic brand "Green Link" "Thunderbolt 4" standard 2-meter connection line has reached 499 yuan.
Some netizens said: The cost of apple thunderbolt 3Pro line plus Apple's brand premium and taxes, the price of 949 is completely expected.