Wait what.
That is insane. Who thought this would be ok?
Is there any cables that are fullspec?
Yes: Thunderbolt. I only buy those because the $10 extra I spend on a cable now will never matter if I have to deal with this nonsense even once.
Re:Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant
by edude03 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:32AM
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Only 0.5M TB3 cables are full spec. Longer ones only support USB 2.0 apparently
Do you have a souce for that? I have a 1m TB3 cable that appears to do USB3.1 just fine, and Newegg sells a 2m one that claims the same. [0]
[0] https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAERN68H8...
https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/08/15/psa-thunderbolt-3... is the first result I found. I could be out of date but I can't find a cable that's 2m long, 40gb, supports 87w+ and USB 3
I thought 0.5M TB3 was for 40G and any longer (up to 2M) is only 20G...
I got downvoted, but I was right:
> At launch, there'll be one passive Thunderbolt 3 cable that supports Thunderbolt, USB 3.1, and DisplayPort 1.2, but with a max bandwidth of only 20Gbps.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/06/thunderbolt-3-embrac...
Re:Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant
by Phrodo_00 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:21PM
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> Who thought this would be ok?
Whoever thought that using the same cable for thunderbolt was Ok. Probably Apple or Intel
Re:Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant
by digi_owl on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:05PM
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Thunderbolt is not even part of the base spec, it just piggy backs on the generic alternate mode that can just as well carry Displayport vidoe (or anything, really).
Most of it is not even with the cables, but the chips and software at either end.
"only" 4???!
Re:Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant
by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:09PM
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Are you sure 2.0 C cables are invalid? Can you back that up?
Half of those are not spec-compliant. There are only 4 different legitimate types of cable: 3.0 non-power/thunderbolt, 3.1 non-power/thunderbolt, power-capable non-thunderbolt, and thunderbolt. That's 3 more types than there should be, but let's not make the problem worse than it is.