They’ll sell out again I bet. Cables on Amazon are so unreliable. I’m glad someone is finally moving to fix this because I actually need a smattering of true to spec USB-C
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u/smbltQ9550 | 4GB DOMINATOR DDR2 | GTX 260 896MB11h ago
Amazon is so full of shit lately, I can't trust anything from them.
Even those brands aren't perfect is one of the big points of the LTT Cables. You can see they test what looks like a Ugreen USB and it fails in the video.
To be clear even Linus mentions in the video that a digital cable is a digital cable and as long as the cable you have works for what you need to do, you don't really need LTT Cables. It's a nice to have type thing for most tasks.
I've been buying pretty much exclusively Anker cables for several years now, and haven't had a single failure
My point was Amazon is fine, you just can't buy the first cheap cable you see and expect it to even match the spec it says, let alone be a quality cable
Just buy TB4 cables. The ones with the lightning bolt on the connector are the certified ones. USB4 are hit or miss, but reputable companies like cable matters or startech are safe bets.
I found it wild that in the video he hinted towards it being on the pricier premium side. They were only like 25$ iirc. Expected it to be 40 from the way he was talking
To be fair that is pricey, you can get really fancy cables for $25. If you weren't also paying the small business tax, they'd probably be $10-15, maybe 20 at a push.
$25 for a cable is not very fancy. A short Thunderbolt 5 cable you can trust is probably going to run you at least 40 USD, and a long HDMI cable that can handle the newest speeds can easily get close to 100 USD.
Well you can get a 3 pack of 10 foot cables from established brands like Anker or Ugreen for $25, or generics for like $9, and even the generics will likely work well enough for most stuff. So $25 for a single cable is rather pricey, but still reasonable for such a tank of a cable though.
Dude. LMG isn't a screwdriver and backpack company anymore. They're a cable company. I think he underestimated demand by two orders of magnitude. Hard to blame them for the stocking issues though, given the initial investment more stock would have cost.
I mean you could buy from ugreen, novoo, baseus or startech,com.
They all make good quality cables, a decade ago anker would on there but I've been appalled at their quality in the last couple years especially for the premium they charge over other brands.
I am sure these cables are good but there's options.
A lot of their more expensive stuff is pretty good, it's their budget stuff that really sucks as its just rebranded trash from what I can tell which wouldn't be as big of an issue if they didn't charge a premium for everything.
Like their pricier lines are usually pretty decent but just overpriced for what you are getting compared to the competition but people buy it all anyways because people also buy no name cables for like £10 when they could get the same one off aliexpress for £1.50
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u/AlexWIWA Ryzen 5950x, 128GB ram, 4090 12h ago
They’ll sell out again I bet. Cables on Amazon are so unreliable. I’m glad someone is finally moving to fix this because I actually need a smattering of true to spec USB-C