Decided to keep his 2011 Macbook free of dongles and adapter cables by soldering a USB-C port onto a USB 2.0 footprint on the motherboard.You needs to put one of the computer in Target Disk Mode (Press T on startup) and connect another USB-C equipped Mac with a USB-C cable (or USB-C to USB Adapter/Cablefor older computer) Note that the USB-C cable that come with your MacBook Pro 2016 does not work. But that defeats the purpose of USB-C which is One-Cable-To-Rule-Them-All. Hdmi) but with the new cable I bought today (usb c <-> hdmi) I am getting no signal.Now some would say just grab yourself a USB-C to USB-A cable and be done with it. After some testing, it seems as if the port 'cant handle strenuous tasks' and by strenuous tasks, I mean running a USB-C hub with external hard drives plugged in it or using the port to go to an external monitor.LG offers a one cable USB-C connection to your MacBook Pro. The other is odd to say the least.Oh my what a statement! As we’ve seen with the Raspberry Pi USB-C debacle, there are actually several different types of USB-C cables which all look pretty much the same on the outside, apart from the cryptic icons molded into the cases of the connectors. Walks through the process of freeing the adapter from its case, slicing off the all-important C portion of it, and locating the proper signals to route to the existing USB port on his motherboard. This vintage of Macbook doesn’t have USB 3, but the spec for that protocol maintains backwards compatibility with USB 2. USB-C Connector with your device, it will connect to your Mac without an adapter.How is that even possible? The trick is to start with a USB-C to USB 3 adapter. 7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display.It must have a real USB C port to function to its full capability.What the ExpressCard people need to do (and should have done *years ago*) is introduce a 54X form factor that has a connector using the full width of the card, and make it all for extra PCIe lanes and some extra beefy power supply. It absolutely will not work at all connected to a 3.0 port with an adapter, but plugged into a USB 2.0 port it will function as a USB 2.0 hub. The vast majority of USB devices cannot come near the maximum transfer rate of whatever USB version they are.The main reason to have a USB C ExpressCard is to be able to use USB C devices that are either not compatible with anything but real USB C, or have limited functionality when connected via an adapter or hub to a USB 3.x port.Currently I have a USB 3.0 hub with a USB C cable permanently attached. The board is pretty long with some chips on it and has a little extra power connector.So there’s a way to hack real USB C into a laptop.Despite Mini PCIe and ExpressCard being essentially functionally identical, and there being desktop PCIe x1 to USB C cards, the company making those Mini PCIe to USB C adapters insisted that a USB C ExpressCard “isn’t possible” because PCIe x1 can’t meet the data transfer rate.If that’s so, then why are they making a device that could be reconfigured to fit the ExpressCard form factor? Why are there so many companies making the PCIe x1 USB C cards for desktops.Seems to me the answer is they just don’t want to make a USB C ExpressCard.I wouldn’t care if it can’t meet the maximum data transfer rate. They’re not like those cheap “USB 3.0” Mini PCIe adapters that are simply a 3.0 A connector attached to the USB 2.0 pins.
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