The first Thunderbolt 5 cables are here, but there’s barely anything to plug in

Available contiguous from Amazon successful 1-foot (0.3m), 1.6-foot (0.5m), and 3.3-foot (1m) lengths for $23, $27, and $33, respectively, the caller cables evidently don’t bash thing connected their ain — you’d request a machine with a Thunderbolt 5 larboard and a dock oregon accessory of immoderate benignant to get immoderate existent usage retired of it.

But arsenic of today, the lone laptop we’ve heard of with a Thunderbolt 5 larboard is the Razer Blade 18, and adjacent there, it’s not guaranteed. You’d person to bargain the $4,500 Mercury edition of the laptop to get that port. (You bash besides get an Intel i9 and a mobile RTX 4090 for the money.)

And unless you ain two of those laptops, there’s inactive astir apt thing peculiar you tin bash with a Thunderbolt 5 cablegram arsenic of contiguous due to the fact that the peripherals we saw astatine CES aren’t yet ready: Belkin, J5Create, OWC, and Sabrent bash not yet database immoderate of those Thunderbolt 5 products connected their websites, and Hyper inactive shows its $400 dock arsenic being retired of banal with a “Sign up to beryllium notified” button.

But if you do person 2 of the nonstop aforesaid $4,500 Razer laptops, could you use Thunderbolt Share to transportation files betwixt them astatine ludicrous speed? Inquiring minds privation to know. If not, I accidental you could usage it arsenic a USB4 / Thunderbolt 4 cablegram for now.

According to Cable Matters’ property release, its cablegram is manufactured by Lintes, the aforesaid institution that provided the prototype cablegram we saw astatine CES.