{"id":2696,"date":"2026-06-24T11:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:22:53","slug":"can-you-save-money-with-a-usb4-cable-over-a-thunderbolt-4-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/can-you-save-money-with-a-usb4-cable-over-a-thunderbolt-4-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you save money with a USB4 cable over a Thunderbolt 4 one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/USB4-versus-Thunderbolt-4.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/usb-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USB-C<\/a> standard effectively played a nasty trick on us, especially where cables are concerned. That\u2019s because it isn\u2019t really a standard at all, but is instead merely a common plug and socket form-factor that can encompass a wide range of capabilities and standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ensuring you buy the right USB-C cable for your needs has been a problem <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/08\/22\/how-to-choose-a-usb-c-cable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for many years now<\/a>. That\u2019s because you don\u2019t want to buy a cable that doesn\u2019t fully meet the standards, but at the same time there\u2019s no point in paying for a higher-spec cable than you need for your particular application \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USB-C standard effectively played a nasty trick on us, especially where cables are concerned. That\u2019s because it ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}