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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by daemonologist on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @03:00PM (#47852981)
All four ports support Thunderbolt 4 - if you scroll down to "Interfaces" on the product specs page there's a graphic showing everything that's supported.
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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by koalaman on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:05PM (#47853839)
nice! Thanks! I had no idea USB4 and Thunderbolt were equivalent.
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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by ciupicri on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:29PM (#47856284)
They aren't equivalent. The "shape" of the port is the same, it's (USB) Type-C. Though as far as I know most of the time you can use USB4 peripherals with TB4 ports.
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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro by jonf3n on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:01AM (#47874724)
They do a terrible job with the documentation... making TB4 (superior) sound like it is USB-C (3.2 or something?). Only the Intel versions seem to support Thunderbolt, the AMD not which I think is the main issue.

Anyway, the next Frameworks need to adopt Thunderbolt 5 to handle modern HDMI 2.1 and 2.2, eGPU, Oculink, etc.

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