For the better part of a decade, the average laptop user lived in a dongle hell. You had a power cable, a USB-A for your mouse, an HDMI for a second screen, an Ethernet dongle for stability, and maybe a proprietary slot for an SD card. It was a mess of spaghetti logic.
Why does that matter? PCIe is the protocol inside your computer that connects the CPU to a graphics card, SSD, or RAM. By routing PCIe outside the computer, Thunderbolt effectively turns the outside world into the inside of your PC. Thunderbolt
Then came Thunderbolt. But not just the Thunderbolt of 2011—the mature, almost magical iteration we see today. In the world of connectivity, Thunderbolt has evolved from a niche, expensive luxury for Mac users into the closest thing the tech industry has to a universal port. For the better part of a decade, the