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Like most of us, I guess, I too conflated the "USB 2.0" speed furor as Apple cheaping out. When I read up on TB Cables, versus simple plain USB-C cables, I had my eyes opened. What Apple is PROBABLY going to include is a CHARGING cable. Like someone else mentioned somewhere, comparing a charging cable to a T4 cable is like comparing a Porsche to a basic transport automobile.

We are NOT being screwed by Apple. A CHARGING cable is all you NEED. If you need high speed data transfer, unlike most of us, you can buy the much more complex and expensive Thunderbolt cable. Relax. 

Turkey is a member of NATO and a primary US ally in the Middle East, so Obama doesn't have much leeway in whether he gets to "support" the country. But if you don't like dictators, think about the Republican nominee and his bromance with Putin and his accolades for Saddam Hussein. The US has its own conservative right wing & religious fundamentalists who been marching toward converting the nation into this exact same type of religious-dictatorship. I hope you feel the same way about freedom in the US as you express regarding Turkey.

Absolutely agree. I wish folks here had to take a 9th grade civics test to vote.

I bought a late 2012 iMac through the Refurbished program. Still out powers these latest offering ! It has a quad core i7 at 3.1 Ghz and 16MB RAM and a 1 TB Fusion Drive. I thought surely the speeds would be triple this by now.