There was a new Apple product this week, but not at WWDC

If you were already surprised bythe prices charged for selling the set of Mac Pro wheels, guess how much Apple displays its new cableThunderbolt 3on its official website: 149 euros. Certainly, the wire measures a fairly substantial length of two meters and seems particularly solid thanks to its braided sheath which avoids knots, but you can find alternatives for less than thirty euros from various resellers, including with MFi certification.

The Cupertino cable, for its part, is black: a color mainly present on the brand's high-end devices, and which recallsprevious rumors about a dark Pencilalso not having been presented during the opening keynote of the Worldwide Developer Conference last night. For connections, there are of course two portsUSB-Cmales at each end, allowing data transfer with a claimed speed of up to 40 Gbit per second. Enough to download a full-length film in less than a minute.

Buy the Thunderbolt 3 Pro cable

Technical sheet

This cord is compatible with the latestMacBook Proand MacBook Air equipped with the new universal reversible standard, just like the iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini and Mac Pro from the same period and with identical plugs. Even iPad Pros, with their 12.9-inch third and fourth generation editions and the smaller 11-inch editions (1st and 2nd gen.) can use the tool by plugging in via their dedicated jack.

This type of equipment will be ideal for example for connecting a screenPro Display XDRto a tower, or read a hard drive with similar performance while maintaining its writing speed. The maximum power is one hundred watts, and deliveries are scheduled for next Thursday in France.You can find the characteristics of the article in detail at this address.