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so let's open up by busting that Thunderbolt is only for max myth it was co-developed by Apple and Intel but the full rights were eventually transferred to Intel and now anyone can implement it and since I've got my history lesson hat on I might as well give you guys another little factoid the original prototype codenamed light peak was actually an optical technology which would have enabled higher transfer speeds and longer cables but since copper can carry power in addition to data and Intel saw better than expected results when testing with copper all of the Thunderbolt cables you see today will have connectors on each end that look exactly like mini DisplayPort but with little lightning bolt symbols on them and with only copper wires inside them but what do those wires do then - well they carry a combination of PCI Express and DisplayPort on one serial signal as well as a DC connection for power all wrapped up in one cable this means that the Thunderbolt interface can be used to connect and power display audio and storage devices as well as USB firewire and game Editha net via adapters I mean this guy is pretty much the limit to top that off you can run up to six total devices at a time off of a single connector by daisy chaining them all together or by connecting to a hub cool stuff and while I don't think it's fair to say that Thunderbolt 1 took the market by storm compared to USB 3 it was very expensive it was certainly a standard unlike anything that we had seen before and it continues to evolve in 2013 Thunderbolt 2 arrived with some big changes bandwidth was doubled to 20 gigabit bi-directional enough to watch 4k video while simultaneously running a high-speed storage device over one cable and maximum transfer speeds were raised to 1500 megabytes per second though overhead and PCI Express limits keep you from hitting speeds even close to that Mac spec in the real world on top of that it maintained the same connector which means V 1 and B 2 are inter compatible the link will simply operate at the speed of the slower device all right well that's it then right 20 gigabit per second simultaneously with 4k video and you get your high-speed storage through one cable I mean that's enough right no we need more power ah excuse me not really sure what happened there anyway we need more power and by that I mean we need higher speeds and greater capabilities with less actual power consumption 50% less if we can rely on a leak slide of Thunderbolt three specs from April 2014 this new format is rumored to come with a doubling of the current Thunderbolt bandwidth from 20 to 40 gigabit per second and it will be capable of 4 modes including hdmi 2.0 cool it should have support for PCI Express gen3 and is rumored to be capable of charging devices that require up to a hundred watts of power the bad news is that it's also rumored to require a new connector so adapters will be needed for backwards compatibility now while we haven't yet reached the hundred gigabit per second maximum speeds over thunderbolt and until promised when they released the protocol I've seen unofficial statements projecting the speed by around 2020 nothing confirmed yet we're still very early in the life cycle and at the rate thunderbolts been moving I'd be surprised if it takes that long and I'm very excited to see the future of this very promising but still very expensive technology speaking of things that are very expensive going to the store and buying razor refills for I mean for some reason why do they cost so much they're pieces of metal and they're in like plastic not a little plastic not that expensive well I don't think they should be that expensive and neither does today's episode sponsor Dollar Shave Club dollarshaveclub.com is the place to go if you want to join the club and stop paying way too much for high-quality razors and for that matter other bathroom supplies they've got a range of different razor options everything up to the executive with six blades they've got their dr. Carver's shave butter which goes on clear so you can see what you're doing and they've even got their one wipe Charlies which are peppermint scented bot wipes for men and it even got an actor shave now - these guys are like trying to take over the world lk maybe not quite the world but at least the US canada and australia where people can join the club and for a reasonable amount of money per month make sure that they're always getting a nice clean shave so guys check out the link that is in the lower third right here and also in the video description to join the club today also like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment letting me know if you have suggestions for future fast as possible episodes and as always don't forget to subscribe to tech quickie and please share the videos that's also helpful too if you enjoyed them