This free Mac app reveals the truth about your mystery USB-C cables

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Nearly 3 years ago, I showed you an awesome $8 cablegram tester that rapidly tells you if your USB-C cablegram is apt fast, slow, powerful, oregon weak. Sadly, that gadget got discontinued, and I've ne'er recovered thing arsenic intuitive oregon inexpensive since. But if you've got a Mac with Apple Silicon chips, you tin simply download an adjacent much awesome tester for free.

It's called WhatCable, and it works by speechmaking the information your Mac already collects astir attached USB devices, information that Apple doesn't usually walk on to you. Just click a small widget that lives successful the paper barroom atop your Mac, and you tin spot each USB-C cablegram and instrumentality connect …

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