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Re:M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2 by toast0 on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:52AM (#31071457)
Sure it did.

You have USB 3 Low speed and Full Speed (aka usb 1), USB 3 High Speed (aka usb 2), and USB 3 SuperSpeed.

Expecting the USB consortium to give things useful names or at least let them keep their names we got used to is the same madness as expecting a singular useful version number from anything Sun derived.

Anyway, according the article everything links at USB 3.1 Gen 2 SuperSpeed+, but then usually doesn't send data at anywhere near the link rate, so that's not an extra layer of confusing.

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Re:M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2 by Dylan16807 on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:45PM (#31076278)
That was a different mess that people ignored entirely.

The x.y numbers were not a mess until 3.1

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