Unlock your laptop’s USB-C/Thunderbolt port and transform how you work and connect devices.

Modern laptops come with a dizzying array of ports—or maybe only one, in the case of some extremely svelte ultraportables. But how can you know what they all do, or what you might want in a new system ...

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 ...

You can plug three Thunderbolt or USB-C devices into the dock along with other USB peripherals, a network cable, audio devices and SD Cards. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Every USB4 cable isn't the same — data transfer speeds, multi-monitor support, display resolution, and power delivery support ...

Use of the high-speed connector is expected to spread, thanks to Intel piggybacking the technology on mainstream USB. And here's why consumers might care this time. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Host connection: Thunderbolt 5 | Number of downstream ports: 8 | Power delivery to host: 90W | USB-C: 3 x TB5, 2 x USB-C 3.2 v2 | USB-A: 3 @ 10Gb/s | Monitor: 3x Thunderbolt 5 | Aux 3.5mm: No | SD ...

Björn Ruytenberg, a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, discovered a security flaw in Intel's Thunderbolt ports, common to many laptops produced before 2019. While the attack involves ...

Thunderbolt displays may be the future of PC I/O expansion for one very simple reason: They could save you money as well as space. The very nice people at BenQ sent over the PD3220U display months ago ...

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 ...