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Re:What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scann... by wutwutwat on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @09:27PM (#37937100)
Was cutting it open not an option? Or heating it up to remove any molded plastics? Surely the CT scan cost more than the $129 it would have cost to sacrifice the cable to the hacker gods (assuming we're talking about US healthcare rates for such a scan and no I'm not trying to make this political, it's an honest question, no trolling)
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Re:What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scann... by fragmede on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @09:38PM (#37937189)
The company the Twitter user works for, Lumafield, makes CT scanners for industrial uses similar to this, so they have a couple lying around the office. They're definitely not paying retail US healthcare prices. Likely the cost to them based on human time spent far exceeds what you'd pay for a tech at a hospital, but it's good advertising.
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Re:What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scann... by iancmceachern on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:46PM (#37938112)
It's an advertising thing. They do these regularly with new stuff.
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Re:What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scann... by drew22huthut on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:09AM (#37938721)
Not as cool nerd
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Re:What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scann... by crefflar on Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:24AM (#37941882)
A CT scan for calcium scoring is around $100 in the US- and that includes radiologist time to interpret the scan. That is not a negotiated price either- insurance does not cover such scans.

Having said that, no healthcare imaging facility would agree to scan a random cable that someone brought in off the street- unless you knew someone. And then it would probably be free because the marginal cost of running a scan is very low with no radiologist time.

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