Chromebooks will now tell you when you’re using the wrong USB-C cable
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZQ9Z)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google's latest Chromebook update adds a feature that tells you if your USB-C cable has limited functionality, the company announced Friday. USB-C cables can have widely varying capabilities, offering things like different charging and data transfer speeds on a cable-by-cable basis, so this new Chromebook feature seems like it could be a useful tool to help troubleshoot issues.
Eligible Chromebooks will notify you if the USB-C cable you're using won't support displays, or isn't performing ideally for your laptop," Google says in a blog post. You'll also get a notification if the cable you're using doesn't support the high performance USB4 / Thunderbolt 3 standards that your Chromebook does." The new feature is coming first to...