Apple Thunderbolt 4 Pro - Thunderbolt cable - USB-C (M) to USB-C (M) - USB 3.2 / USB4 / Thunderbolt 3 / Thunderbolt 4 / DisplayPort - 1.8 m - active, Daisy chain support - black

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For £109.82 ex-VAT, this is one of those cables that’s “great” in the way an Apple branded Swiss Army knife is great: it works reliably, looks tidy, and will behave properly in the messy reality of offices. If you’re running a Thunderbolt 4 docking setup, a pro display chain, or you’ve got daisy-chaining requirements (and want to avoid the intermittent handshakes and flaky video that cheaper cables can cause), an active Thunderbolt cable is a sensible piece of insurance—especially over 1.8m where passive cables start getting a bit more hit-and-miss depending on the device chain.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it for day-to-day USB-C peripherals. If your use case is keyboards, storage, general charging/data, or you’re not actively using Thunderbolt features end-to-end, you’ll be paying a lot for capability you won’t notice. For mixed environments, I’d also sanity-check whether your customers/devices actually benefit from Thunderbolt-level integrity—if not, you’ll get far better value with a more standard quality USB-C cable and reserve this one for the “real” pro workflows.