Hi,
I would like to connect a cable with regular thunderbolt connection to my laptop. However, my Dell laptop has a Thunderbolt™ 3 (2 lanes of PCI Express Gen 3) Type C connection. Is the female (opening) thunderbolt of the adapt for Thunderbolt 1 or 2? null

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Hi, 
I would like to connect a cable with regular thunderbolt connection to my laptop. However, my Dell laptop has a Thunderbolt™ 3 (2 lanes of PCI Express Gen 3) Type C connection. Is the female (opening) thunderbolt of the adapt for Thunderbolt 1 or 2? null

WaraiOtaku · Accepted Answer

Yes, it is thunderbolt 2, but will work also as thunderbolt 1 albeit at the lower speed (10 gb for 1, 20 gb for 2).

zpalma · Answer

Thunderbolt gen 2 but 1 should work too

Daniel · Answer

Yes. The female end will connect to existing Thunderbolt 1 & 2 cables with no additional devices.

Daniel · Answer

The female end is Thunderbolt 1 and 2. Thunderbolt 2 used the same plug as 1 with a higher data transfer rate. Also of note, the adapter is bidirectional or ‘backwards’ compatible if you are hooking up to an older computer with Thunderbolt 1-2.

Answered by Daniel 7 years ago

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Chuck · Answer

Thunderbolt 1 and 2 had the same female (end that goes into the computer) end.

“Hi, I would like to connect a cable with regular thunderbolt connection to my laptop. However, my Dell laptop has a Thunderbolt™ 3 (2 lanes of PCI Express Gen 3) Type C connection. Is the female (opening) thunderbolt of the adapt for Thunderbolt 1 or 2?”

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