Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this piece to connect my 2020 MacBook Air to my Thunderbolt Display and it has been amazing. Cord works beautifully and it was a good price.

Just what I needed. A little pricey, but saved me from having to buy a new monitor.

Works great.. would recommend if your looking for this type of adapter

Let’s me review pictures I have in an external hardrive.

This adapter does what a adapter is supposed to do. I used this for my apple thunder bolt monitor and it works like a charm. A little pricey but other than that, a great product.

I bought this to be able to access an older device by daisy chaining a Thunderbolt 2 adapter to this one. It worked just as I expected.

Excellent! Does exactly what I purchased it for. Love it

Cost effective and perfect for what I needed...I also greatly appreciated the help I received in-store while purchasing.

Works as intended. This adaptor was what I needed to connect my Mac Mini to my Apple Thunderbolt Display.

It's a little expensive but well worth it. It made it so that I could finally use my 2012 era thunderbolt display with my m2 laptop.

It is the right tool for the right job. I needed to connectmy new M4 Mac Mini to a 27" Apple Thunderbolt monitor. It worked the first time.

I purchased a promise external storage array for my mac pro not realizing it only supported thunderbolt 3 and the mac pro only had thunderbolt 2. This connector was pretty much my only option. Works very well but is a little expensive for an adapter.

Needed this adapter to connect my MacBook Pro with USB-C connectivity to an older Apple Thunderbolt Display. Typical Apple accessory that works perfect out of the box.

This adapter is perfect for connecting my dated audio interfaces to my newer laptops.. works perfectly I would recommend it!

Over the decades, Apple has attempted to set the standard for high-speed peripheral connections, only to have the universal serial bus, USB, overtake them. Firewire 800 was great, but it seems pokey compared to USB 3.0. Thunderbolt 2 was conceived as a better way to connect hard drives and other peripherals using the same type of interconnect as their displays of the era. It was designed as a superset of the mini displayport and at 20 GHz, much faster than any flavor of USB, making it ideal for connecting RAID storage devices and the like. However with USB 3.0 type C Gen 2, USB has again caught up and is poised to surpass the older Thunderbolt 2 connection standard. Thunderbolt 3 is finally a step in the right direction, merging the Thunderbolt and USB type connection standards, Apple now has a clear path forward that will resolve the issue of standards for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, if you have an older Thunderbolt 2 device that costs several hundred or thousand dollars, you're probably not ready to retire it, just because you got a new computer. This adapter solves the problem, allowing you to connect Thunderbolt 2 devices to Thunderbolt 3 ports and even to USB type C ports. There are some caveats, however. Firstly, this adapter is rather expensive, but there's a reason for that, as it contains a working Thunderbolt 2 driver chip. This adapter is not to be confused with inexpensive USB C to mini displayport adapters, that are very common. Those do not include the Thunderbolt 2 chip and they are not bi-directional. They're designed for output to a display only and will not work with Thunderbolt 2 devices. With only a few other adapters on the market, the Apple adapter is really the only game in town, which is unfortunate, as it has some major shortcomings. Secondly, there is no power pass-through. That means this adapter cannot be used with a bus-powered device. Transcend makes an outstanding Thunderbolt 2 portable SSD, but it won't work with this adapter because it derives it's power from the Thunderbolt 2 connection. Fortunately, it's still possible to daisy-chain Thunderbolt 2 devices, so one can still use a bus-powered device, provided an externally-powered device such as a RAID enclosure is placed between the Apple adapter and the terminating device. Finally, the Thunderbolt 2 connection itself is not all that robust and even a small amount of movement can disrupt the flow of data and cause the dreaded "disk not ejected properly" error message. One cannot help but wonder why Apple chose to use a dongle for such an unstable connection, as dongles frequently are associated with movement. If this adpater is used with a cable that regularly moves, I would strongly recommend tying the cable down to an item that doesn't move, so that the Thunderbolt 2 connection is isolated and remains stationary. Otherwise, interruptions in data flow with resulting data corruption are to be expected. In summary, the Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter is an essential device when connecting older Thunderbolt 2 legacy devices to a newer computer that lacks a Thunderbolt 2 port. Just don't expect to draw power through the adapter, and don't expect it to tolerate any movement at all at the Thunderbolt 2 connection interface.

works as expected. good price for open box product

Delivered what was promised at a reasonable price.

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Does the job perfectly, downside its pricy, say no more!

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